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I think what you are asking about was the trebuchet, which was much more like a sling than like a slingshot.

There was a type of catapult called a ballista, which was like a large crossbow, and it is possibly a similarity to this type of weapon that is the reason people in England and many other places call a slingshot a catapult.

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