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*'''Catapulting''' - the act of throwing something by use of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult Catapult]
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* '''catapulte:''' (''French'') a type of siege engine
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** ''"Baliste (Tite-Live) et catapulte (Vitruve) à côté de bélier.". ("Ballista (Livy) and catapult (Vitruvius) are similar to a battering ram").''
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*** [http://www.archive.org/stream/lalanguederabela01sain#page/91 Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 91 (Paris 1922)]
  
*'''pelting''' - To strike or assail repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombard: ''pelted each other with snowballs''. source: [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pelt Dictionary.com]
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* '''catapulting:''' the act of throwing something by use of a catapult
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult Wikipedia]
  
*early versions of the catapult were known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista Ballistas]. See entry for ** in this same sentence.
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* '''pelting:''' striking or assailing repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombarding
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** [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pelt Dictionary]
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* '''pelt:''' the human skin; '''catapelting''' → cut-a-pelt-ing, cutting a human skin; cf. [[Hoodie]] and [[Camibalistics]]
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*'''catapelting:''' after caterwauling? (cata-pelting at cater-walls) Lould noisy sound of male cats fighting;  compared to bad singing with reference to the previous poet Verlaine? or arguing  / whining over a topic with refrence to the battle / treaty of Verdun?

Latest revision as of 14:17, 15 April 2010

  • catapulting: the act of throwing something by use of a catapult
  • pelting: striking or assailing repeatedly with or as if with blows or missiles; bombarding
  • pelt: the human skin; catapelting → cut-a-pelt-ing, cutting a human skin; cf. Hoodie and Camibalistics
  • catapelting: after caterwauling? (cata-pelting at cater-walls) Lould noisy sound of male cats fighting; compared to bad singing with reference to the previous poet Verlaine? or arguing / whining over a topic with refrence to the battle / treaty of Verdun?