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Definition of Catapults
1. catapult [v] - See also: catapult
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catapults
Literary usage of Catapults
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"I have now given those symmetrical proportions of ballistae and catapults which
I thought most useful. But I shall not omit, so far as I can express it in ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"I have now given those symmetrical proportions of ballistae and catapults which
I thought most useful. But I shall not omit, so far as I can express it in ..."
3. The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins by John Wilkins (1802)
"Concerning the Catapults, or engines for arrows. HT^HE other kind of engine was
called catapulta *, axo T*)£ ..."
4. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"There were great catapults, fixed upon a scaffold with wheels, which were used
in sieges, and small ones, carried in the hand, which were employed in the ..."
5. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"... being either hard, and even horny, or very soft, as if dissolved. the siege
of Jerusalem, the Romans liad 3(10 catapults and 4O balista;. ..."
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