trebuchet
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- Etymology and terminology
- Basic design
- History
- Traction trebuchet
- Counterweight trebuchet
- Origins
- China
- Function
- Decline of military use
- Other trebuchets
- Hand-trebuchet
- Hybrid trebuchet
- Couillard
- Comparison of different artillery weapons
- Roman torsion engines
- Chinese trebuchets
- Counterweight trebuchets (estimates)
- Siege crossbows
- Reconstructed traction trebuchets
- Reconstructed counterweight trebuchets
- Modern use
- Recreation and education
- Developments
- Uses in activism and insurgency
- Uses in regular armies
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
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A trebuchet () is a type of catapult that uses a hinged arm with a sling attached to the tip to launch a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder. The design of a trebuchet allows it to launch projectiles of greater weights and further distances than a traditional catapult.