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Definitions of ballistae in various dictionaries:
noun - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges
noun - an ancient weapon
BALLISTAE - The ballista (Latin, from Greek ballistra and that from ball, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile wea...
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Plural form of ballista. |
a catapult used in ancient warfare for hurling large stones. |
A catapult used in ancient warfare for hurling large stones. |
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The Ballista (Latin, from Greek ballistra and that from ball, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target. * Possibly the earliest mention of ballistae occurs in a description of weapons made by King Uzziah, who reigned over the Kingdom of Judah in the eighth century BCE. A passage from the Hebrew Bible relates: "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong."Developed from earlier Greek weapons, it relied upon different mechanics, using two levers with torsion springs instead of a tension prod (the bow part of a modern crossbow), offering much greater efficiency over tension based weaponry. The springs consisting of several loops of twisted skeins. Early versions projected heavy darts or spherical stone projecti |