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Definition of Catapulting
1. catapult [v] - See also: catapult
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catapulting
Literary usage of Catapulting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"... the catapulting of the pollen of the orchid Catasetum against the insect, the
lever-hammering stamens of Salvia, the deliberate stuffing of the Yucca ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Her face was without cloud again. She leaned lightly against his arm. Miss Ernestine
had meanwhile been catapulting into election issues with all the ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"The drama of life is merged in melodrama: the stage darkened; the traps are
catapulting forth their apparitions ; the foot-lights burning blue ..."
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