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Wat (wie) is BALLISTA - definitie

ANCIENT MISSILE WEAPON
Ballistas; Ballistae; Heavy Scorpion; Balistra
  • Roman cart-mounted carroballista
  • Roman 'catapult-nest' on [[Trajan's Column]]
  • ancient Greek artillery]], including [[catapult]]s such as the ''[[polybolos]]'' (to the left in the foreground) and a large, early [[crossbow]] known as the ''[[gastraphetes]]'' (mounted on the wall in the background)
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  • Metal components of a 4th-century ballista
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  • Illustration of a ballista being loaded and drawn
  • Ampurias]]
  • Ballista bolt heads
  • Reconstructed small Roman ballista
  • Royal charter]] awarded to Carlisle, showing the operation of a ballista by the city's garrison.

Ballista         
·noun An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
ballista         
[b?'l?st?]
¦ noun (plural ballistae -sti: or ballistas) a catapult used in ancient warfare for hurling large boulders.
Origin
C16: from L., based on Gk ballein 'to throw'.
Ballista         
The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.

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Ballista

The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.

Developed from earlier Greek weapons, it relied upon different mechanics, using two levers with torsion springs instead of a tension prod (the bow part of a modern crossbow). The springs consisted of several loops of twisted skeins. Early versions projected heavy darts or spherical stone projectiles of various sizes for siege warfare. It developed into a smaller precision weapon, the scorpio, and possibly the polybolos.