onager : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: onager	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
onager n an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles Synonym(s): catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket Asiatic wild ass Synonym(s): onager, Equus hemionus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Koulan \[d8]Kou"lan\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A wild horse ({Equus, [or] Asinus, onager}) inhabiting the plants of Central Asia; -- called also {gour}, {khur}, and {onager}. [Written also {kulan}.] Note: It is sometimes confounded with the dziggetai, to which it is closely related. It is gray in winter, but fulvous in summer. It has a well defined, dark, dorsal stripe, and a short, erect mane. In size, it is intermediate between the horse and ass.