 | | Re: Trebuchets —David Laswell
| | | | (...) I'd never heard of an "onager" before, but a trebuchet is similar to a catapult, but it works more on the lever principle rather than spring tension. Basically you put a really long arm on a pivot point, you hang a huge weight (in olden days (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Trebuchets —Johannes Koehler
| | | | | Hello! (...) Onager: <gr.-lat.>: 1. half-donkey in South-West-Asia; 2. (hist.) Roman throwing machine. Says my dictionary. In German. These Roman catapults were similar to my catapult. Well, I should say mine is similar to their's :-) (...) Thanks (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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