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UK
/tɹˈɛbʊʃˌeɪ/
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NOUN
- an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
How To Use trebuchet In A Sentence
- Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
- Three of the most common were the ballista, the mangonel, and the trebuchet.
- Catapults of the Middle Ages were divided into two major groups: ballistas, and trebuchets.
- Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels.
- Torsion and counterpoise engines of war - ballistae and trebuchets - could be made in situ with local materials - timber and fibre.
- And in times of trouble the Pumpkin will always be ready to be flung from our trebuchet in any direction worthy of it.
- As if that were not enough, a second trebuchet was built to a French design using a huge swinging ballast-filled basket as a counterweight.
- In retaliation, catapults, trebuchets and arrows from the Bismarck archers rained down on the Mongols.
- The enemy had approached in the predawn to within a few hundred yards, and a big trebuchet was hurling rocks at them.
- Trebuchet need How has to equip is best ?
