Middle English Dictionary Entry
mangonel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mangonel n. Also -enel, -inel, -unel, -urnel, mangnel, mangol, mangloun, maungenel, mongenel, magnel(le, magnal, maggenel, maignel, machenel. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A machine used for hurling stones or other matter in the seige or defense of castles or cities; also fig.
Associated quotations
- a1350(1265) BLewes (Hrl 2253)18 : Þe kyng of alemaigne..wende þat þe sayles were mangonel.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8124 : Me ne miȝte noȝt ise bote arwen & flon & stones out of liþeren & of magnels [vrr. magnales, mangeneles; B: mangurneles, maggenells] al so.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11438 : Hii þat wiþinne were..sede to hom wiþoute, bote hii wolde aȝen wende, Þat hii wolde sir edward vawe out to hom sende, Iliþered wiþ a mangenel.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2430 : Our king Vterpendragon Him asailed..Wiþ heweing & wiþ mineinge & wiþ mangunels casteinge.
- c1330(?a1300) Rich.(Auch)117/123 : Drisses now ȝour mangunel & kestes to her tre castel.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)2431 : Þe cite to asail haue þai no rest, Wiþ stones & mangunels fast to cast.
- c1330 SMChron.(Auch)2089 : He sett þer in a mangonel, Þat þurch quentise of mannes strengþe It miȝt cast þre mile olengþe.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)116/30 : Þe guode walles sarzineys þet me ne may naȝt breke ne mid pic ne mid mongenel.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4302 : Ful hard it es again him [love] dele To bidint of his mangonele.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.125 : To Lyncoln forth on one Rauf þan tok his way & reised a mangnel to kast vnto þe toure.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1591 : Vp þai setten her magnels And arblastes wiþ querels.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)3219 : Wiþ mangenels [Lind: magnelis], gunnes, and bowe, Hij duden þe ost mychel howe.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)21.295 : Sette mahon at þe mangonel and mulle-stones þroweþ.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6279 : Who myght defense ayens hem make? Withoute strok it mot be take Of trepeget or mangonel.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)6060 : Engyns dide þe Bretons reyse, & mangenels ful gode to preyse, & ffruscht þe wal of þe cite.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)7811 : He purveid for maygnelles and belfrayes.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)799 : [They] Merken myd manglouns [vrr. mangonells, mangynels, magnels, machenelles] ful vn-mete dyntes.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)2233 : I charge the To throwe a magnelle to yon tour And breke it downe on thre.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)594/34 : Mangonale: a mangnel, or a gunne.
- a1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)186/1065b : An hundrid gynnys þey were vpset, Of Maungeneles and Treybochet; The leste of hem, the sothe to seye, Myght castyn a large myle of þe way.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)111/24 : And if þou shall assayll castels, vse Instrumentz castyng stones, as Mangoles or Perrerers.