Definition of Onagir
||On"a*ger (?), n.; pl. L.
Onagri (#), E. Onagers (#). [L.
onager, onagrus, Gr. &?;.] 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
- A wild ass, especially the koulan.
Latin
- a wild ass
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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