| 单词 | siege engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmassiege engine siege engine n. now historical a machine used in besieging a castle, town, etc.; spec. a catapult or trebuchet; cf. engine n. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] > catapult manubalista1460 catapult1577 siege engine1763 slingshot1849 shanghai1863 nigger-shooter1876 catty1893 1763 J. Mills & T. Blackwell Mem. Court Augustus III. x. 15 The Siege-Engines that loaded three hundred Carriages, and among the rest the famous Battering Ram..they broke into pieces and burnt. 1889 Classical Rev. 3 449/1 He has adopted plans from van Kampen and has added representations of siege-engines, entrenchments and the like. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xxxii. 464 The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels, and catapults planted on sand-dunes. 2000 R. King Brunelleschi's Dome (2001) xiv. 125 Since the formula for gunpowder..had yet to be perfected, ancient and medieval devices such as siege engines, catapults and battering-rams were still in widespread use. < as lemmas |
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