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Definition of Petrary
1. n. An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
Definition of Petrary
1. Noun. A weapon used to hurl stones ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petrary
1. a contrivance for hurling stones [n PETRARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrary
Literary usage of Petrary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"[Knights set in the petrary, and hoisted over the Castle.] "WHEN the Damsel saw
the Seneschal before her, who was the man in the world whom she hated the ..."
2. The Publications of the Pipe Roll Society by Pipe Roll Society (Great Britain), Pipe Roll Society (Great Britain (1884)
"The farm of Berkshire was charged with the carriage of a petrary and a ...
It is probably this petrary of which Hubert speaks in an unpublished writ, ..."
3. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"... he says: "They set up a mangonel before our barbican, when we lost no time in
opposing to it from within an excellent Turkish petrary, which played upon ..."
4. The Antiquities of England and Wales by Francis Grose (1783)
"He fays it was thrown from the bottom of a machine called a petrary, and that it
came ... This fire was thrown three times in the night from the petrary, ..."
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