catapulta

Here probably was a catapulta and certainly a vigilant garrison.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

A musquet is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar than a balista or a catapulta.

I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1909

The cannon and the mortar are, not only much dearer, but much heavier machines than the balista or catapulta, and require a greater expence, not only to prepare them for the field, but to carry them to it.

I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth 1909

He called it a marine catapulta, and had complete models, plans, and descriptions, which he exhibited to the naval committee, in the effort to have a ship constructed on these lines.

The end of an era, 1899

In 2 Chr. 26: 15 it refers to inventions for the purpose of propelling missiles from the walls of a town, such as stones (the Roman balista) and arrows (the catapulta).

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

The catapulta, which was placed upon city walls, was a great cross-bow for hurling arrows upon an enemy.

Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms 1861

Large swords, daggers, slings, the catapulta and battering-ram, were the principal weapons.

Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms 1861

I'm determined to do it; so that every one may pursue his own path, let no one be bringing any of his business in this street; for my fist is a balista, my arm is my catapulta, my shoulder a battering-ram; then against whomsoever I dart my knee, I shall bring him to the ground.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

In sieges, the ‘Aries,’ or ‘battering ram,’ which received its name from having an iron head resembling that of a ram, was employed in destroying the lower part of the wall, while the ‘balista’ was overthrowing the battlements, and the ‘catapulta’ was employed to shoot any of the besieged who appeared between them.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

The aries, the scorpio, the balista, and the catapulta, give a horror and sublimity to war, and magnify its glory, by increasing its desolation.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821