Showing posts with label weapons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weapons. Show all posts

slingshot and catapult

It's time to start catching up on the trickle of queries that seems to have created a flood in my inbox. James in western Massachusetts writes: My source is some eighty years out of date, but I've been reading a British author who used "catapult" for what (today) an American would call a "slingshot."...
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AmE = American English
BrE = British English
OED = Oxford English Dictionary (online)