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‖ vinea|ˈvɪniːə|
Also 7 vinia.
[L. vīnea: see vine n.]
A kind of protective shed or penthouse anciently used in siege-operations.
1601Holland Pliny I. 406 How to approch the walls of their enemies, to give an assault under a frame devised for the purpose, which thereupon took the name Vinea. 1614Gorges tr. Lucan iii. 106 Their Vinias to the wall they brought, Couerd with greene turfes all aloft. 1678Phillips (ed. 4). 1718Rowe tr. Lucan iii. 721 Beneath the Vinea close th' Assailant lies. 1783W. Gordon tr. Livy's Rom. Hist. ii. xvii. (1809) 130 The Vineae and other works were repaired. 1885Oman Art War 47 The vinea and testudo, the catapult onager and balista, were as well known in the tenth century as in the first. |