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trabuquet

trabuquet is the obsolete form of trebuchet.

Meaning of trebuchet

Noun

trebuchet (plural trebuchets)

  1. A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end.
    • Medieval trebuchets are said to have been capable of launching 90-kg projectiles over distances of more than 300 meters.
  2. A torture device for dunking suspected witches by means of a chair attached to the end of a long pole.

See all 3 meanings of trebuchet

Forms of trabuquet

pluraltrabuquets

Questions about trabuquet

What is trabuquet the obsolete form of?
Trabuquet is the obsolete form of trebuchet.

Words near trabuquet in the dictionary

  1. Trabuccos
  2. trabuch
  3. trabucho
  4. Trabue
  5. Trabues
  6. trabuquet
  7. trabuquets
  8. Trabzon
  9. trabzonite
  10. TRAC
  11. tracable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trabuquet (page history and authors); trebuchet (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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