"catapulta" meaning in English

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          "text": "The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.",
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          "ref": "1863, Thomas de Quincey, Richard Bentley and Other Writings, page 128",
          "text": "This pantomime over, Bentley recoiled, with the spring of a Roman catapulta, to his natural pursuits.",
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          "ref": "1863, \"An Old Cricketer\", The Cricket-Bat; and how to use it, page 90",
          "text": "The catapulta was formerly an engine of war, used by the Romans for casting javelins and stones against castellated walls. A modern form of catapulta has been constructed, with a view to do away with the necessity of bowling the ball.",
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