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A week later, the team reloaded the ballista and aimed its spears at sheep hide.
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Carroballista was an ancient, cart-mounted ballista, a type of mobile field artillery.
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With the invention of torsion spring bundle technology, the first ballista was built.
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The ballista is positioned to fire vertically downward into a bucket of target material.
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The stones chosen to be used in the ballista had to be a particular sort.
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Then they constructed a ballista, a Roman invention similar to a crossbow that fires projectiles.
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At one point, they even ditched the ballista and took turns charging the box with spears in hand.
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Perhaps best known are the ballista, the onager, and the scorpio.
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Later the Romans used ballista catapults on their warships.
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- Catapult: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
- The ballista (Latin, from Greek u03B2u03B1u03BBu03BBu03AFu03C3u03C4u03C1u03B1 ballistra and that from u03B2u03ACu03BBu03BBu03C9 ballu014D, "throw"), plural ballistae, was an ancient missile weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target.
- An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles
- A very large medieval crossbow used by an army attacking the walls of a besieged town. This crossbow was capable of firing large rocks and spears long distances.
- (Latin) a high powered crossbow that hurled missiles long distances and could pierce armor.
- A large siege engine much like a crossbow.
- Artillery- weapon discharging arrows and stone balls
- A late Roman, Romano-Byzantine and early medieval catapult which looked like an oversized crossbow. Used to shoot large arrows at personnel rather than to damage fortifications. Term eventually was used for a late medieval crossbow. Alternative term: funda.
- N. A device useful in the adjustment of sound systems playing elevator music.
