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Definition of Onager
1. Noun. An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
Generic synonyms: Engine
Derivative terms: Catapult, Catapultian, Catapultic
2. Noun. Asiatic wild ass.
Generic synonyms: Wild Ass
Specialized synonyms: Chigetai, Dziggetai, Equus Hemionus Hemionus
Definition of Onager
1. n. A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
Definition of Onager
1. Noun. A wild ass, ''Equus hemionus'', especially the koulan. ¹
2. Noun. A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Onager
1. a wild ass of central Asia [n -GERS or -GRI]
Medical Definition of Onager
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Origin: L. Onager, onagrus, Gr.
1. A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Onager
Literary usage of Onager
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"So far as known for certain, the last two, A. onager and A. hemionus are
distinguishable by shades of colour only, and by unimportant differences in the ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... which shot a short square arrow twice the distance of an ordinary bow-shot
and with such force as to break trees or stones l ; and the onager or onager. ..."
3. The Horse and Its Relatives by Richard Lydekker (1912)
"CHAPTER VII THE KIANG AND onager GROUP THE wild Asiatic representatives of the
Equities, other than the tarpan, are commonly known as wild asses, ..."
4. The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse by William Ridgeway (1905)
"Zoologists now discriminate between E. onager indicus (which is found in
North-western India ... The onager indicus is not so dark in colour as the kiang, ..."
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