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mangonels

mangonels is the plural of mangonel.

Meaning of mangonel

Noun

mangonel (plural mangonels)

  1. (historical) A traction trebuchet (trebuchet operated by manpower).
    • The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401
  2. (historical, often, proscribed, non-technical) An onager (type of catapult).

Questions about mangonels

What is mangonels the plural of?
Mangonels is the plural of mangonel.

Words near mangonels in the dictionary

  1. mangona
  2. mangonada
  3. mangonadas
  4. Mangone
  5. mangonel
  6. mangonels
  7. Mangones
  8. mangonism
  9. mangonisms
  10. mangonization
  11. mangonize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mangonels (page history and authors); mangonel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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