单词 | slinging-engine |
释义 | > as lemmasslinging-engine b. attributive, as slinging-cast, slinging-engine, slinging-machine. ΚΠ 1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 5 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Archimedes..caused a slinging Engine to be made of a wonderfull height and greatness. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xii. 93 The..slinging Casts of the Vulcanian Thunderbolts. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 640/1 The mate-griffon and mate-funda, both slinging-machines. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth xliii The besiegers turned two of their slinging engines on this monster. < as lemmas |
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