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trebuchet
English
Alternative forms
- trepeget (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French trebuchet, trebuket et al. (modern trébuchet), from trebuchier (“to overthrow, topple”), from tre- + *buchier, from Old French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *b?k (“belly, trunk, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Old High German b?h (“belly”), Old English b?c (“belly, trunk”). More at bouk.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t??b???t/, /?t??b.j?.?e?/, /?t??b.ju.?e?/
- (US) enPR: tr?b’yo?o-shet, IPA(key): /?t??b.ju???t/, /?t??b.j???e?/
Noun
trebuchet (plural trebuchets)
- A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end.
- Hypernym: catapult
- Coordinate terms: onager, mangonel
- A torture device for dunking suspected witches by means of a chair attached to the end of a long pole.
Translations
Further reading
- trebuchet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Burchette
Old French
Etymology
From the verb trebuchier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /treby?t??t/
Noun
trebuchet m (oblique plural trebuchez or trebuchetz, nominative singular trebuchez or trebuchetz, nominative plural trebuchet)
- trebuchet, bird trap
- fall (instance of falling)
- place where a fall occurs
- trap; ambush
Descendants
- English: trebuchet
- French: trébuchet
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cannon
English
Etymology
Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of canyon.
This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n'?n, IPA(key): /?kæn.?n/
- Rhymes: -æn?n
- Homophone: canon
Noun
cannon (countable and uncountable, plural (mainly UK) cannons or cannon)
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- (military, aviation) An autocannon.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A cannon bit.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”)
- (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
Related terms
- autocannon
- cannonade
- cannonball
- cannoneer
- glass cannon
- nursery cannon
Translations
Verb
cannon (third-person singular simple present cannons, present participle cannoning, simple past and past participle cannoned)
- To bombard with cannons.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Maltese Cat" in The Day's Work, [2]
- […] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
- She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Maltese Cat" in The Day's Work, [2]
Translations
References
Further reading
- cannon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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