单词 | trabuch |
释义 | trabuch Obs. or arch.|trəˈbʊk| Also 7 trabucche, trabuck. [a. OF. trabuc (Sp. trabuco), f. tra-, très- (:—L. trans-, expressing displacement) + OF. buc trunk (of the body), bulk, a. WGer. bûh, Ger. bauch belly.] A mediæval engine of war for throwing great stones against walls, etc.: cf. trebuchet.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 400 Of these Mangonells, Patraries, Trabucks..by which..they discharged volies of mighty huge stones..much might heere be said. 1614Camden Rem. 238 Our nation had the practise of most of these, and moreouer of Mangonels, Trabucches, and Bricolles, wherewith they vsed to cast mil-stones. 1890Doyle White Company xv, The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle. |

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