trebuchet

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  1. noun A medieval catapult for hurling heavy stones.

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  • Radetic watched as the trebuchet crews cranked the arms of the engines back to throwing position. —  The Fire In His Hands
  • The boat carried several of these-also a disassembled trebuchet which his artisans had constructed. —  The High Crusade
  • I'm Chris Ewing and my friends and I have built a trebuchet. —  CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2004
  • We generally ask them about this point, can we shoot the trebuchet, you know, after we've shot once. —  CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2004
  • The kind of catapult they used is known as a trebuchet (treybooshay), a more powerful, more accurate version of the standard stone hurler. —  Richmond.com - Main
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from trebucher, to overthrow : tre-, over (from Latin trāns-; see trans-) + but, trunk of the body (of Germanic origin).

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  1. Formerly also trebucket; Middle English *trebuchet, tribochet, trepeget, trepget, trepgette, trebgot, from Old French trebuchet, trebuquet, trabuquet, French trebuchet (=Provencal trabuquet =Spanish Portuguese trabuquete =Italian trabocchetto, Middle Latin trebuchetum), a military engine for throwing stones, a pitfall for beasts or birds, a kind of balance, a trebuchet; from Old French trebucher, trabucher, tresbucher, French trébucher =Provencal trabucar, trasbuchar, trebucar =Spanish trabucar =Portuguese trabucar, traboecare, stumble, tumble, Old French also overbalance, over weigh; prob. from Latin trans, over, + OF + buc, the trunk of the body, from Old High German buh, German bauch, belly: see bouk.
 

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