ballista

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In fact, it was a projectile from a ballista.

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an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

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noun

an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

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noun

an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

Example sentences

In fact, it was a projectile from a ballista.

The Blender jumps on a loaded ballista and tells the crew to launch him at the Illithid ship.

If you're planning on making a 1-ton arrow, you better factor a massive ballista somewhere in those plans.

Catapult really paints the wrong picture... but if you say ballista and actually mean a maglev rail accelerator then I'm down

These were surface finds a few meters from the excavated house that was burned down and the ballista projectile was recovered from its interior.

But the basic loop is there: Swordsman are infantry, pikemen are heavy infantry/mech, dogs are recons, knights are tanks, mages are anti air guns, trebuchets are rockets and ballista are missles, etc etc.

While in ME a design goal may be "The player should fight an old friend, after discovering his betrayal", in TES may be "The player should fight a dragon near a boiling volcano using a dwarven ballista".