trebuchet
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History’s biggest trebuchets, from the 1300s, took months to build.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025
His six foot, two inch frame coils at the crease before his muscular arms act as trebuchets to unleash thunderbolts at the batter's nose and toes.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024
The other things he had to forgo in those days were catapults and trebuchets “because they were considered weapons,” but Lego designers slowly won the battle there.
From The Verge • Jun. 18, 2022
These days, thousands of spectators show up to watch contestants pitch pumpkins using trebuchets, catapults, centrifugal machines, and other contraptions.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2021
The dry, scorched plains around Meereen were flat and bare and treeless for long leagues, but the Yunkish ships had brought lumber and hides up from the south, enough to raise six huge trebuchets.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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