Look up: onager

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   onager
   [n] - Asiatic wild ass
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   onager
   From the 4th century AD onwards, this was the name of the siege engine, which used a torsion engine (tormentum) driving a vertical firing arm to hurl objects. It was named after the wild ass, because of the way it kicked out when it fired. It was a wheel-mounted siege engine with stones held in a sling ejected from the vertical arm powered by the t...
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   Onager
   Roman name for a Mangonel, literally a 'wild ass'
   Found on A Glossary of Castle Terminology
   
   
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   Onager
   On'a·ger noun ; plural Latin Onagri , English Onagers . [ Latin onager , onagrus , Greek ....] 1. (Rom.Antiq.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt. 2. (Zoology) A wild ass, especially the koulan.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/19
   
   
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   onager
   Origin: L. Onager, onagrus, Gr. ... 1. A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. ... 2. <zoology> A wild ass, especially the koulan. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   onager
   Equus hemionus noun Asiatic wild ass
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   Onager
   The `Onager` (`Equus hemionus`) is a large mammal belonging to the horse family and native to the deserts of Syria, Iran, Pakistan, India, Israel, and Tibet. It is sometimes known as the `Asian Wild Ass`. Like many other large grazing animals, its range has contracted greatly under the pressures of hunting and habitat loss, and of the six subspecies, one is extinct and two endangered. The Kiang (`E. kiang`), a Tibetan relative, was previously co...
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   Onager
   • (n.) A wild ass, especially the koulan. • (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
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   onager
   (from the article `military technology`) ...in the horizontal plane, such as that described above, are called ballistae. There is no evidence that catapults in the narrow sense were used by ...
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    onager
    (Equus hemionus onager), subspecies of the wild ass of Asia that ranged from northwest Iran to Turkmenistan. Pale-coloured and small, it has a short ... [2 related articles]
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    onager
    onager (on'ujur) or Persian wild ass,wild ass of central Asia, Equus hemonius onager. One of the several races of Asian wild ass (E. hemonius), it formerly ranged widely across S Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan. A small, slenderly built animal, it stands about 4 ft (120 cm) high at the shoulder. I...
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