mangonelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mangonel (plural mangonels)

1. (historical) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects.
   1. A traction trebuchet (trebuchet operated by manpower).
      • 1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401:

        The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.

   2. (non-technical, often proscribed) An onager (type of catapult).

参照

• “mangonel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• "mangonneau" in the Dictionnaire de la langue française (Littré).