petrary

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A weapon used to hurl stones
    — Their boats, loaded with six months’ provisions and a petrary for shooting crucifixes, were stowed aboard.

词形变化

petraries plural

词源

From Medieval Latin petraria, from Latin petra (“stone”).
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