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the superior siege engine that turns gravity into a 90-kilogram murder catapult
means A medieval siege engine that uses a heavy counterweight and a long swinging arm to hurl large projectiles over castle walls.
from From Old French trebuchet, 'a snare for catching birds' or 'something that overturns,' built from the verb trebuchier, 'to stumble, fall, or overthrow' — itself a compound of tres- (an intensifying prefix, 'across, beyond') and a root meaning 'to topple,' possibly tied to buc, 'trunk of the body.' So the great wall-smasher is named, almost gently, for the simple act of falling over — which is exactly what its counterweight does to fling death across the battlefield.
- range
- hurled stones over 300 yards
- ammo
- besiegers flung diseased corpses and severed heads
- counterweight
- some loads exceeded 10 tons of earth
- comeback
- used against ISIS by Syrian rebels in 2013
- physics fame
- meme-famous as the best ballistic engine
warwolf trebuchet — scottish siege weapon used at stirling castle in 1304, could hurl 300-pound stones
bad neighbor trebuchet — medieval siege engine at château de montségur, 1244, during cathar siege in southern france
petraria of torsion — roman siege trebuchet variant documented at masada in 73 ce by josephus