onager - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • stone-throw: The Romans adopted these weapons during the Punic Wars and further developed them, before introducing the new arrow-firing ballista and stone-throwing onager.
  • call: A larger catapult called an Onager fired stone shots weighing about 50kg and could hit a target 270 meters away!

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