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onager

Noun

on=a=ger

WORDNET DICTIONARY

onager(n = noun.artifact) arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, catapult, mangonel, trebuchet, trebucket - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles;

is a kind of engine

is a kind of wild ass

has particulars: chigetai, dziggetai, equus hemionus hemionus

onager, n. [L. onager, onagrus, Gr. .].

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
A wild ass of central Asia, especially the koulan (Equus hemionus syn. Equus hemippus syn. Equus onager, formely Asinus onager). [1913 Webster]

onager, n.
1 a wild ass, esp. Equus hemionus of Central Asia.
2 hist. an ancient military engine for throwing rocks.

Etymology

ME f. L f. Gk onagros f. onos ass + agrios wild