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Definition of Trebuchets
1. trebuchet [n] - See also: trebuchet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trebuchets
Literary usage of Trebuchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... missiles from the trebuchets of the templars, for God wished to deliver that
city to his servants entire, as the key and outwork of all the land of ..."
2. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"The trebuchets were sometimes distinguished by particular names, a fancy already
... In 1303, when the Bernese besieged Wimmis, they had two trebuchets, ..."
3. Annals of a Fortress by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1876)
"Behind the left- hand curtain of the bailey gate, he set up the two remaining
trebuchets on a wooden platform, and then connected the corner of the chapel ..."
4. The Life and Times of James the First, the Conqueror, King of Aragon by Francis Darwin Swift (1894)
"The men of Marseilles offered to (Sept. to build ' trebuchets,' and the besiegers
had ... however, on their side possessed two ' trebuchets' and fourteen ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1897)
"4 great stones that the garrison will never be able to stand them, but will
surrender at once, as soon as the mangonels or trebuchets shall have shot into ..."
6. The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1918)
"... windlasses and catapults, mantlets and trebuchets. At one time a Moorish
detachment on the hillside above the Christian camp cut off the stream that ..."
7. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"... which superseded the slings and bows and darts, the catapults and trebuchets
and mangonels and battering- rams, which had been used from the beginning ..."
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