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catapult
A device that hurls a missile by placing it in front of a bowstring which connects two bundles of stretched sinews. The catapult could send arrows and one-pound weights almost 1,000 feet. The first artillery is found in Roman catapults. Later catapults threw spears and flaming torches.
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