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trabuch
trabuch Obs. or arch. (trəˈbʊk) Also 7 trabucche, trabuck. [a. OF. trabuc (Sp. trabuco), f. tra-, très- (:—L. trans-, expressing displacement) + OF. buc trunk (of the body), bulk, a. WGer. bûh, Ger. bauch belly.] A mediæval engine of war for throwing great stones against walls, etc.: cf. trebuchet.1...
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trebuke
† trebuke variant of trabuch.c 1482 J. Kay tr. Caoursin's Siege of Rhodes (1870) ¶11 A man of Grece,..counseyled the Lord Mayster and the Rhodyans to make and ordeygne an engyne called Trebuke lyke a slynge, which was grete hye and myghty, and casted grete and many stones into the hoste of the Turke...
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trebuchet
trebuchet (ˈtrɛbəʃɛt, ‖ trebyʃɛ) Forms: α. 4 trepejette, trepget, 4–5 -eget, 5 trepgett(e, trip-, trypgette, 6 trepegett, -gete, trepa-; β. 4–5 tri-, tre-, treybochet; 5 trebget (erron. -got); 6 trabu-, 7 trebuschet, (8–9 trebucket), 8– trebuchet. [In I, a. OF. trebuchet, also trebuket, -busket, tra...
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