- Siege engine, siege machine, siege weapon.
- Fernão Lopes seems to use the word "engenho" as a generic term that can be applied to a range of siege engines employed to throw projectiles, usually stones, against or over castle walls. The term can include trebuchets, catapults or mangonels.
- Enrique II of Castile called for four siege engines to assist in the 1373 siege of Lisbon. [Fernando, ch. 80: 46-47]
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