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noun • a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones • a device that launches aircraft from a warship • an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles verb • shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult • hurl as if with a sling | ||||||||
| 57% | 11 | Employing a slingshot or trebuchet | ||||||
noun • a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones • a device that launches aircraft from a warship • an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles verb • shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult • hurl as if with a sling | ||||||||
| 44% | 6 | From Greek for “work”, one’s pizzazz, vigour, zest or zip; or, a scalar quantity and quantitative property that can exist in forms including kinetic, potential and thermal | ||||||
noun • the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 • (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs • forceful exertion • enterprising or ambitious drive • an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) • a healthy capacity for vigorous activity • any source of usable power | ||||||||
A Ballista Onager Trebuchet Or Y Shaped Slingshot For Hurling Boulders Or Stones By Means Of Potential And Kinetic Energy Crossword Clue
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CATAPULT which was last seen in the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword.
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CATAPULT
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