Crossword-Solution: BALLISTA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ballista | n. | An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BALLISTA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient missile hurler | 1 answer |
| Ancient siege weapon for launching stones | 1 answer |
| Launcher of rocks as used in ancient warfare | 1 answer |
| ancient Greek and Roman weapon used to launch missiles at targets | 1 answer |
| ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc | 1 answer |
| Ancient catapult | 2 answers |
| Ancient siege weapon | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BALLISTA (5)
See Ballista.] (Antiq.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow.
The Greek is applied originally to defensive weapons, then to the artillery of the day, Ballista, catapults, etc.
But indeed he had not such a high opinion of gunpowder but that he believed engines for projection, more powerful as well as less expensive, could be constructed, after the fashion of ballista or catapult, by the use of a mode he had discovered of immeasurably increasing the strength of springs, so that stones of a hundredweight might be thrown into a city from a quarter of a mile's distance without any noise audible to those within.
The mangonels and petraries, and other implements for battering walls, and the ballista, with every efficient means of throwing missive weapons, were ready to discharge their artillery upon the heads of the beseiged.
The scorpion was a huge cross-bow, the catapults showered stones to a great distance; the ballista discharged flights of darts and arrows.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).