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Catapult

noun

A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones. Synonyms: sling, slingshot.

A device that launches aircraft from a warship. Synonym: launcher.

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

Shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult.

Hurl as if with a sling. Synonym: sling.

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"Catapult" Quotes from Famous Books

... shot from a catapult, he sprang to the door, whisked through it, banged it behind him, turned the key, and went racing down the ...

— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... aim. He fired at chance. The bullet nipped the left shoulder of Hawksley's coat and shattered the laths of the partition between the attic and the servant's quarters. Under the impact of the human catapult Karlov staggered back, desperately striving to maintain his balance. He succeeded because Hawksley's senses left him in the instant he struck Karlov's knees. Still, the episode was a respite for Cutty, who dashed at Karlov before the latter ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... None of these things matters to him on the way "in." He can bend his back quickly enough as he passes along. There are always a few bullets dropping near by. One will hit the mud somewhere around his feet. The boy nearest springs as from a catapult until he is close to the comrade ahead of him. No; he never springs back. If he did ... he would be the man ahead. He would be in front. Nuffin' doin'—the whole idea is to keep behind; there is no ...

— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

... at Cobo on the 28th of September of that year. This seems rather an early date. When I was in Guernsey in November, 1875, I saw a few flocks of Snow Buntings, and one—a young bird of the year—which had been killed by a boy with a catapult, was brought into Couch's shop about the same time, and I have one killed at St. Martin's, Guernsey, in November, 1878; and Captain Hubbach writes me word that he shot three out of a flock of five in Alderney in ...

— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith

... and together, so that the fierce man went out from their grasp like a huge stone from a Roman catapult. There was a hideous yell, and, after a brief but suggestive pause, ...

— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne

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