catapulta

Definiciones

Máquina de guerra hecha para lanzar piedras u otros proyectiles, usada sobre todo en la antigüedad.

Equivalentes

Ejemplos

“The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.”

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