0 a large device used in wars in the past for throwing large rocks, for example at the walls of a castle that was being attacked:
It is named after the trebuchet, a medieval siege engine.
The citadel was bombarded by trebuchet and cannon.
Among the most common were the ballista, mangonel and trebuchet.
The project consisted of a series of workshops and a kitchen tent set up around the trebuchet.
However other sources say this machine was a trebuchet.
The trebuchet's technical constructions were lost at the beginning of the 16th century.
The novel describes these as linear trebuchets powered by magnetic induction motors.
Warwolf is believed to have been a large trebuchet, which destroyed the castle's gatehouse.
