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A trebuchet is a large siege engine used to hurl missiles. To perform this task it uses a long arm and a sling to hurl projectiles. The sling is attached to the arm, and when the arm is moved by the release of a counterweight the sling is moved upward. Just after reaching the top of the arm's arc, the sling partially releases "throwing" the missile inside.
So the trebuchet uses a sling as the primary method of hurling its projectiles, the catapult simply uses an arm, which stops at a 90 degree angle while the projectile on board begins its journey to the target.
Mechanically, a trebuchet is a type 1 lever (fulcrum in the center, load on one end, force on the other). A catapult is a rod pushed through a spring, which uses torsion as the force.
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The difference is that the trebuchet sling the stone or fireballs .A catapult doesn't sling and it doesn't carry as much weight
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I always thought that an onager was a particularly large type of catapult
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What were the uses of the trebucket?
They were used to bombard castles with large stones.
What are trebucket made of?
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Is it chapolt or catapult?
catapult
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you make a catapult!
What is the noun form of Catapult?
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where was the catapult used
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