单词 | trabuch |
释义 | trabuchn. Obsolete or archaic. A medieval engine of war for throwing great stones against walls, etc.: cf. trebuchet n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] > ballista ballistaeOE ginc1325 mangonelc1325 springalc1330 ballistc1384 scorpionc1384 tormentc1384 trebuchet1388 fowler1420 dondainec1430 onagera1460 perrier1481 trabuch?1482 bricole1489 coillard1489 mouton1489 sambuca1489 martinet1523 racket1535 sling1535 brake1552 catapult1577 sweep1598 sling-dart1600 petrary1610 espringal1614 scorpion-bowa1629 swafe1688 sackbut1756 mangona1773 matafunda1773 lombard1838 ?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes A man of Grece..counseyled the lord mayster and the Rhodyans to make and ordeygne an engyne called Trebuke lyke a slynge, whyche was grete, hye & myghty and casted grete and many stones into the hoste of the turkes. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 400 Of these Mangonells, Patraries, Trabucks..by which..they discharged volies of mighty huge stones..much might heere be said. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 238 Our nation had the practise of most of these, and moreouer of Mangonels, Trabucches, and Bricolles, wherewith they vsed to cast mil-stones. 1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xv The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1482 |
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