mangonel in English

noun
1
a military device for throwing stones and other missiles.
The battering rams and mangonels would be ready in a few days.
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1. 26 The original Mangonel was first used in Roman times to fling large rocks at enemies. This Mangonel, though bearing some resemblance to its forebear, is far larger than its Roman counterparts.

2. A mangonel is a type of catapult that is true to the real Catapults they made in the Middle Ages and Medieval Times because they didn't have rubber bands! They used twisted rope for power and this table top Mangonel does the same

3. Arbalest - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles arbalist , ballista , bricole , mangonel , onager , trebuchet , trebucket , …

4. Traction trebuchet and Counterweight trebuchet are modern terms (), not used by contemporary users of the weapons.The term traction trebuchet was created mainly to distinguish this type of weapon from the onager, a torsion powered catapult which is often conflated in contemporary sources with the mangonel, which was used as a generic term for any medieval stone throwing artillery.