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14 wordies list
onager |
(n): an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
(n): an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
(n): Asiatic wild ass
(n): any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
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Milo, this is good stuff !
Cited by Ogden Nash:
Have ever you harked to the jackass wild,
Which scientists call the onager?
It sounds like the laugh of an idiot child,
Or a hepcat on a harmoniger.
But do not sneer at the jackass wild,
There is a method in his heehaw.
For with maidenly blush and accent mild
The jenny-ass answers shee-haw.
Ohhhhh, my gosh. Coolest word *ever*.
A wild or feral donkey, originally; it was adopted as a Roman name for a catapult. Apparently it kicks about as hard.