The trebuchet and the mangonel were very like the Roman ballista, and acted much in the same way as the catapult, except that the motive force was the fall of a heavy counterweight instead of tension.
A party of men were bringing a huge mangonel ashore from one of the galleys, and setting it in position, prepared to bombard the house with heavy stones, each capable of tearing a jagged hole in the stonework.
In the meanwhile the men about the mangonel had set the powerful spring, and a mass of rock lay poised on the gigantic spoon, awaiting only the release of the engine to cast the deadly missile towards the doomed house.
Buckland encouragingly, though the moral effect of the mangonel was beginning to tell.
There was one mangonel so close under the walls that when all its crew were shot dead no others had ventured to man it.
By main force they tugged the mangonel up beside the beffroi, trampled out the flame for an instant.
But often certainly the term Mangonel seems to be used generically for all machines of this class.
Of the kind worked by man-ropes must have been that huge mangonel which Mahomed Iba Kásim, the conqueror of Sind, set in battery against the great Dagoba of Daubul, and which required 500 men to work it.
Marry, crossbow and mangonel were busy on the former occasions, and it is like they will be silent now.
Bend the bonny mangonel upon the place, and shoot him if he dare to stir from the spot where he stands till we get all prepared to receive him," said Flammock in his native language.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangonel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
