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Catapult   /kˈætəpˌəlt/   Listen
Catapult

noun
1.
A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones.  Synonyms: sling, slingshot.
2.
A device that launches aircraft from a warship.  Synonym: launcher.
3.
An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.  Synonyms: arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket.
verb
1.
Shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult.
2.
Hurl as if with a sling.  Synonym: sling.



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"Catapult" Quotes from Famous Books



... used in the construction of the catapult may be found in almost any junk pile, and the only work required, outside of what can be done at home, is to have a few threads cut on the pieces of pipe. The fittings can be procured ready to attach, except for drilling a ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... with some pride, "is a modern catapult—an up-to-the-minute catapult which, had it been known to the ancients, would have enabled the hosts of Joshua, for instance, to batter down the walls of Jericho without the trouble of marching so ...
— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood
... liver, and none too fresh at that)—her crouching body thrown well back upon the haunches, her tail, enlarged to double the usual size, waving sinuously from side to side in leisurely calculation of distance and chances. Suddenly she launched her supple body into space like a catapult, caught the meat between her claws, swung in the air for a victorious ...
— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland
... fourteen feet in length, was cast at Cologne; and in 1472 Vindelin de Spire printed his Bible. A new world was making its appearance; and, strange to say, it was upon the banks of the Rhine that those two mysterious tools with which God unceasingly works out the civilization of man—the catapult and the book—war ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume V (of X) • Various
... some chicken and cake and toffee and things in a handkerchief, and climb on to the porch with Grumper's longest fishing-rod, you might be able to relieve the besieged garrison a lot. If the silly Haddock were any good he could fire sweets up with a catapult." ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren


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