mangonel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mangonel
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French (diminutive), derivative of Late Latin manganum < Greek mánganon engine of war
Vocabulary lists containing mangonel
Medieval Europe - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Another suggestion for the origin of the word is that the word represents a shortened form, gonne, of a supposed French mangonne, a mangonel, but the French word is mangonneau.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Is it perhaps an error for Karábughá, the name given by the Turks and Arabs to a kind of great mangonel?
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
From her mangonel she looketh forth, Ha, la belle blanche aubépine!
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
Ye dauntless archers, twang your cross-bows well; On, bill and battle-ax and mangonel!
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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