Definition of "onagri" []

• Plural form of onager. (noun)

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• "If onagri or springals lay unassembled in the hold they were not yet being brought to the deck."
• "The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size."
• "The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the _balista_, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the _onagri_, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size."