Their ramparts were armed with 3,000 ballisters to shoot javelins with and 500 catapults.
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Ballister
Synonyms for "ballister" (36 found)
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On their E. side are four round solid towers, at the top of wach of which is a slight depression, supposed to have contained a watch turret or some implement of warfare, such as a ballister.
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He orderd that the crippled should be flung by a ballister and the blind should be dragged from Delhi to Daulatabad, a distance of 40 days .
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The choir, which is separated from the body of the church by a ballister, is darkned by the great number of escutcheons affixed to it .
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