catapulter

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noun

One who uses a catapult.

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Meanings

nouncatapulter (plural catapulters)

plural catapulters

  1. One who uses a catapult.

    Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.

    2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors, Simon and Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118

Origin

From catapult + -er.

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APA

catapulter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapulter

MLA

“catapulter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapulter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catapulter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapulter.

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