vinean.
/ˈvɪniːə/ A kind of protective shed or penthouse anciently used in siege-operations.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed
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vine1565
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penthouse1600
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fence-roof1609
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 406 How to approch the walls of their enemies, to give an assault under a frame devised for the purpose, which thereupon took the name Vinea.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 106 Their Vinias to the wall they brought, Couerd with greene turfes all aloft.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.)
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 721 Beneath the Vinea close th' Assailant lies.
1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy Rom. Hist. I. ii. xvii. 130 The Vineæ and other works were repaired.
1885 C. Oman Art of War 47 The vinea and testudo, the catapult onager and balista, were as well known in the tenth century as in the first.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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