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siege engines

siege engines is the plural of siege engine.

Meaning of siege engine

Noun

siege engine (plural siege engines)

  1. (historical) A large weapon of war used during ancient and medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.; specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.
    • Opposite this hill Bohemund's men now began to dig in a definite direction. For the besiegers had devised this new mischief against the city and invented a new knavish siege-engine to apply to the town. For as they dug, they went along under the ground like moles boring holes in the soil and in...1928, Anna Comnena [i.e., Anna Komnene], “Book XIII”, in Elizabeth A[nna] S[ophia] Dawes, transl., The Alexiad (Byzantine Series), Cambridge, Ont.: In Parentheses Publications, published 2000, page...

Questions about siege engines

What is siege engines the plural of?
Siege engines is the plural of siege engine.

Words near siege engines in the dictionary

  1. Siegals
  2. Siegbahn unit
  3. Siegbahn units
  4. siege
  5. siege engine
  6. siege engines
  7. siege house
  8. siege houses
  9. siege mentalities
  10. siege mentality
  11. Siege Perilous

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