onager
IPA: ˈɑnʌdʒɝ
noun
- The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).
- (military, historical) A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.
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Examples of "onager" in Sentences
- These are the knight, onager and hasty.
- A ballista has two springs, an onager one.
- Onager and Mangonel are functionally the same.
- Ballista and onager used the same torsion system.
- The onager was the main Roman invention in the field.
- Perhaps best known are the ballista, the onager, and the scorpio.
- Although alike, the onager came after the mangonel, they are different.
- Some examples of torsion siege engines are the onager and the ballista.
- These horses as described earlier are small and look like a onager or kiang.
- The dorsal stripes of the Onager and Kiang are dark brown and especially vivid.
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