The earliest appearance of the term "trebuchet" dates to the late 12th century. In China it was called the húihúi pào (Muslim trebuchet). In Arabic the counterweight trebuchet was called manjaniq maghribi or majaniq ifranji. The numerous forms of the word that appeared during the 13th century, including trabocco, tribok, tribuclietta, and trubechetum, have made it impossible to identify the source with any certainty. Cathcart King suggests that it is derived from " trebucher, to rock or tilt". The origin of the word "trebuchet" is uncertain. The onager was a torsion powered weapon used in Europe from the 4th until the 6th century AD. It appeared in both Christian and Muslim lands around the Mediterranean in the 12th century, and was carried back to China by the Mongols in the 13th century. The later, and often larger and more powerful, counterweight trebuchet, also known as the counterpoise trebuchet, uses a counterweight to swing the arm. Carried westward by the Avars, the technology was adopted by the Byzantines in the late 6th century AD and by their neighbors in the following centuries. It first appeared in China in the 4th century BC. The first is the traction trebuchet, or mangonel, which uses manpower to swing the arm.
The design of a trebuchet allows it to launch projectiles of greater weights and further distances than that of a traditional catapult. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder.
1306-18 Ī trebuchet ( French: trébuchet) is a type of catapult that uses a long arm to throw a projectile. Replica counterweight trebuchets at Château de Castelnaud Counterweight trebuchet used in a siege from the Jami' al-tawarikh, c.
For other uses, see Trebuchet (disambiguation).
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