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Word: trenchbut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the siege of St. Marcel in the year 1212, says Frank Yerby in The Saracen Blade, a dead horse was mounted on a trenchbut. This instrument, a huge catapult, flung the horse clear over the city's parapets and dropped it in the public cistern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Without Commas | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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