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mangonel
I hope I'm not getting too technical, but the trebuchet was a type of mangonel.
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The torsion catapult or mangonel is a medieval siege engine invented by the ancient Greeks.
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The use of the mangonel, however, is new to me.
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This engine was sometimes called the mangonel, although the same name may have been used for a variety of siege engines.
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He was with his mother at the siege of Toulouse in 1218, where his father was killed after being struck on the head by a stone pitched by a mangonel.
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Though the weapon continued to be used in the Middle Ages, it faded from popular use with the advent of the trebuchet and mangonel in siege warfare.
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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
- A mangonel (derived from Greco-Latin word manganon, meaning "engine of war") was a type of catapult or siege machine used in the medieval period to throw projectiles at a castle's walls. The exact meaning of the term is debatable, and several possibilities have been suggested. ...
- A medieval engine of war (OED). The usage is puzzling. It might indicate a subtlety depicting a siege in miniature; or it might merely signify food in the form of a cylinder ('mangle'). See also 'motte'.
- A light stone throwing engine, powered by a skein of twisted rope.
- A catapult that used twisted rope as the source of power to launch projectiles. The projectile would be in a bucket at the end of the throw arm
- A military apparatus formerly used for throwing stones [OF]
- A siege engine capable of hurling large projectiles, usually stones, at the enemy, the Mongols were reported to have used one with a range of 400 yards; they also had portable mangonels which they carried on pack animals
- A catapult, sometimes referred to as a traction trebuchet or a torsion engine.
- An offensive weapon with projectile arms that turn and hurl rocks
