warwolf

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  1. Same as werwolf.
  2. A military engine used in the early middle ages in the defense of fortresses. He [Edward I.], with another engine named the warwolf, pierced with one stone, and cut as even as a thread, two vaunt-mures. Camden, Remains, Artillery, p. 206. The war-wolfs there Hurl'd their huge stones. Southey, Joan of Arc, viii.

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  1. from war + wolf, or perhaps a particular use of warwolf, werwolf.
 

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