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macchina bellica ad arco

English translation: bow-type weapon

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00:45 Nov 20, 2010

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Italian term or phrase: macchina bellica ad arco

Da un testo sulle macchine da guerra medievali e antiche:
"Nell’antichità vengono impiegate diverse macchine belliche:
- Quelle ad arco che perfezionano questa antichissima arma creando la balestra ed altri meccanismi simili: si tratta di fissare l'arco ad un sostegno in modo da poterlo tendere usando il peso del proprio corpo o con l’aiuto di martinetti e leve per aumentarne così la potenza.
- Già nel 350 A. C. si usano in Grecia le prime armi a torsione, come la catapulta o la balista, in cui, invece di un arco, si impiega come mezzo di propulsione un fascio di tendini o di crini ritorti che, rilasciati, tendono la corda che scaglia la freccia o la pietra
- I trabucchi sfruttano invece la forza di gravità con il sollevamento di pesi che ricadendo agiscono sul lungo braccio di una leva e proiettano a distanza grandi pietre."

Francesco D'Arcangeli KudoZ activity Questions: 1151 (7 open) (64 closed without grading) Answers: 25
Local time: 06:50

English translation:bow-type weapon

Explanation:
Just supporting Philgoddard's idea.
Per una traduzione a mio avviso più corretta quindi mi limito a scrivere il termine più generale, utilizzato anche in videogames strategici in tempo reale (RTS games).
Questa definizione comprende le armi ad una o due mani, e le "macchine da guerra" come catapulte e baliste.
Se vuoi Phil scrivi tu la traduzione, ti darò il mio agree.

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Diego Delfino
Italy
Local time: 06:50

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Summary of answers provided

siege engine - Longbow/Crossbow

fbbest

3 +2

bow-type weapon

Diego Delfino

3 +1

bow-type war machine

Daniel Frisano Paulon

tension and torsion war machines

Shera Lyn Parpia

3 -1

war bow

David Hollywood

Discussion entries: 1

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

bow-type war machine

Explanation:
un'idea

Daniel Frisano Paulon
Italy
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of:

Italian,

Friulian

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

war bow

Explanation:
... I'm out now too make a large heavy hitting war bow, following the measurements provided below. I'd welcome any others who wish to build ...
paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/.../Building-a-War-Bow.html - Cached - Similar

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or: warbow

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At this time it was called the "war bow". At close range the longbow was ... By definition it does not allow the archer to draw the string to the face or ...
www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Bow_(weapon) - Cached

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definitely a medieval weapon of war ....

David Hollywood
Local time: 01:50
Native speaker of:

English

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

bow-type weapon

Diego Delfino
Italy
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

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15 hrs confidence:

tension and torsion war machines

Explanation:
I'm not an expert in this field but I've seen this used and think it may do the trick.

Artillery and war machines - Swansea University
15 Sep 2008 ... Both may have been tension (bow) catapults. The earliest firm evidence for a torsion catapult is an Athenian inscription dated 330/29, ...
www.swansea.ac.uk/grst/.../artillery.htm

Ancient Catapults
The replacement of the flexible bow by the torsion spring gave a great boost to ... could be rotated and then pinned in place to adjust the tension before firing. .... whose great contemporary fame rested chiefly on his war machines, ...
www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/war/Catapults.htm

Roman siege engines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The torsion ballista, developed by Alexander, was a far more complicated weapon than ... around the bow arms, which in turn were attached to the bowstring. ... the motion of the oars, and the unfamiliar machines, the natives halted and ... In action the spoke was forced down, against the tension of twisted ropes or ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_siege_engines

Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 06:50
Native speaker of:

English

16 hrs confidence:

siege engine - Longbow/Crossbow

Explanation:
Hi,

from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_warfare

"In the Medieval period besieging armies used a wide variety of *siege engines* including: scaling ladders; battering rams; siege towers and various types of catapults such as the mangonel, onager, ballista, and trebuchet. Siege techniques also included mining in which tunnels were dug under a section of the wall and then rapidly collapsed to destabilize the wall's foundation."

In the book 'Weapons. A pictorial History, it can be found a detailed description of long- and crossbows.

Kindest Regards
Francesca

Reference: http://books.google.it/books?id=sCnyIzibmywC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA5...
Reference: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_medievale

fbbest
Italy
Local time: 06:50
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian

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