onager Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
    catapult; mangonel; arbalest; trebuchet; trebucket; arbalist; bricole; ballista.
  2. noun Asiatic wild ass
    Equus hemionus.

WordNet

On"a*ger noun
Etymology
L. onager, onagrus, Gr. .
Wordforms
plural L Onagri E Onagers
Definitions
  1. (Rom.Antiq.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.
  2. (Zoöl.) A wild ass, especially the koulan.

Webster 1913