Usually means: Devices for launching projectiles mechanically.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. catapults: Merriam-Webster
  2. catapults: Collins English Dictionary
  3. catapults: Vocabulary.com
  4. Catapults, catapults: Wordnik
  5. catapults: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. catapults: Wiktionary
  7. catapults: Dictionary.com
  8. catapults: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Catapults: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. catapults: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. catapults: Legal dictionary

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  1. catapults: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catapult)

noun:  A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.
noun:  A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
noun:  (UK) A slingshot.
noun:  An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
noun:  (figuratively) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
verb:  (transitive) To fire a missile from a catapult.
verb:  (transitive) To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
verb:  (transitive) To increase the status of something rapidly.
verb:  (intransitive) To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
verb:  (intransitive) To have one's status increased rapidly.
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