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词汇 mangonel
释义 mangonel
noun[ C ]
 military, history specializeduk /ˈmæŋ.ɡə.nel/ us /ˈmæŋ.ɡə.nel/
a large device used in wars in the past for throwing large rocks, for example at the walls of a castle that was being attacked, by pulling on ropes attached to a lever:
The mangonel was the big gun of antiquity.
A hundred yards away two great mangonels had been set up.
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The children built working models of medieval siege equipment in their technology class, for example a trebuchet and a mangonel.
The mangonel projected massive, damaging boulders and was a vital engine of siege warfare.
Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge.
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