Vocabulary Word
Word: catapult
Definition: slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult
Definition: slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult
Sentences Containing 'catapult'
For although she does not avoid or shun the society and conversation of the shepherds, and treats them courteously and kindly, should any one of them come to declare his intention to her, though it be one as proper and holy as that of matrimony, she flings him from her like a catapult.
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