6 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATAPULTIER»
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catapultier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
catapultier and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
R.E.A.L: The Yearbook of Research in English and American L ...
The life-in-the-moon sujet will do as an example. Arlequin talks at length about
the emperor's eating habits and the practice of music in his court. His food is
catapulted, as his drink is syringed, into his mouth. An inept catapultier once hit
his eye ...
Herbert Grabes, Hans-Jürgen Diller, Hans Bungert, 1984
2
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
... trees and were five or six feet in length.' The projectiles 'were made from wet
clay, moulded into round pellets and pressed firmly at the tip of the catapult sticks.
' The catapultier fired the clay pellet 'by the swift stroke of the catapult, held in ...
3
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
a small forkedstickhaving anelasticstring fixed tothetwo prongs, usedby boys
forthrowingsmall stones. —adj.Catapul′tic.—n.Catapultier′. [L.catapulta—Gr.
katapeltēs—kata, down, pallein, to throw.] Cataract, kat′arakt, n. a great fall of
water, ...
4
Concise English Dictionary
n. catapultier i-ter'). — catapult fruit one that shoots out its seeds. [L. catapuita —
Gr. katapeltes] cataract kat'a-rakt, n. a water-spout, etc.; a waterfall: an opaque
condition of the lens of the eye. painless, unaccompanied by inflammation.
5
The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354
He served as a catapultier (hajjar) in the citadel of Damascus under the Ayyubid
sultan al-Malik al-Sal1h (1240- 49), hence his appellative (altered in the printed
text to al-Hijazi) . *,1 This date is irreconcilable with the astronomical calendar (by
...
Ibn Batuta, Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, C. Defrémery, 1995
6
Diamond Hindi-English Dictionary
I^Trft 30 (aro) stone-bowman, pellet-bowman, catapultier. *m 30 1 . glandular
enlargement ; 2. an army division having 9 elephants, 9 chariots, 27 horses and
45 foot soldiers; 3. bush, shrub. *]W* see 'ita'V. •rwft F*to 1 . tapered short block in
...
Giriraj Sharan Agrawal, Baljit Singh, 2000
