mangonel

The use of the mangonel, however, is new to me.

I hope I'm not getting too technical, but the trebuchet was a type of mangonel.

Among the most common were the ballista, mangonel and trebuchet.

This engine was sometimes called the mangonel, although the same name may have been used for a variety of siege engines.

He surveyed the approaches, and planted a mangonel at the southeast corner.

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This way, with trained workers, the leader of the craft could adjust the strength applied to the mangonel.

More stones rattled down the slope from the mangonel on the opposite barbican.

'How long do you think these walls will stand up to a mangonel, Bevier?'

A poorly constructed mangonel will kill more of its crew than it will the enemy.

The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.

Sir Dougal studied the machine with professional interest "A mangonel.

Each of the latter held a catapult throwing several darts at once, or a mangonel with incendiary ammunition.

Mangonel may also be indirectly referring to the mangon, a French hard stone found in the south of France.

The mangonel, which projected massive, damaging boulders and was a vital engine of siege warfare for the Christian forces.

A mangonel's an oversized catapult, about the size of a small house, and it can throw thousand-pound rocks for a long distance.

Nonetheless, by the 1350s, Southampton had mounted mangonel and springald siege engines on the existing walls.

The Persian navy consists of the galley, ram ship and the mangonel galley.

A mangonel had a wooden spoon-shaped arm, to hold a stone or object, which was manipulated under tension from a twisted rope.

The torsion catapult or mangonel is a medieval siege engine invented by the ancient Greeks.

The mangonel in the Middle Ages had a different connotation from the Roman onager.

I did think of the mangonel and the ballista, but I discarded those too, and finally settled on the trebuchet.

In the medieval east, the first person to construct a stone throwing mangonel was Nimrod, the king of Babylon.

By this time, the Christians had virtually perfected the art of siege warfare, using the powerful mangonel, among other massive siege engines.

In this sense, mangonel had poorer accuracy than a trebuchet (which was introduced later, shortly before the discovery and widespread usage of gunpowder).