catapult
ਕਵਾਇਦ
definition
verb
the plane was refueled and catapulted back into the air again
hurl or launch (something) in a specified direction with or as if with a catapult.
noun
a device in which accumulated tension is suddenly released to hurl an object some distance, in particular.
example
‘No one saw it, and they used a 'catapult' to launch’ the airplane.
It was a sweltering 140 degrees on the flight deck as we taxied our Prowler to the 'catapult' for a late July launch into the skies of the Arabian Gulf.
As it approached mid day we decided to pack up and I fired out the floating pellets on to the water with my 'catapult' and then started to pack away my gear.
For a high school science project, my son and his pals built a 16-foot tall medieval siege 'catapult' .
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a 'catapult' .
Shutting down and egressing from the aircraft while on the 'catapult' would have been the most conservative course of action.
On one occasion, bricklayers building the new facility came under fire from a youngster armed with a 'catapult' .
His feet caught me square in the shins., causing me to 'catapult' up into the air.
Last year a man lost the sight in his left eye after he answered a knock at his door and was hit by a stone fired from a 'catapult' .
Then, probably using a 'catapult' , they smashed 13 windows, leaving the school facing a hefty repair bill.
As I was sitting on the 'catapult' waiting to launch, I noticed the weather changing.
Using an air rifle or a high-powered 'catapult' , the vandals smashed ten of the ground's floodlights causing over €1,000 worth of damage.
It is believed the children may have used a 'catapult' to fire the stone.
The minimum flight velocity was so high that the aircraft could not be hand-launched but instead required a 'catapult' .
A home-made 'catapult' firing a steel ball bearing or lead ball can have twice the kinetic energy of the average airgun.
With the Greyhound shuddering and jolting, the pilot inches the aircraft across the deck towards the waiting 'catapult' .
‘I have seen dead pigeons in the park before; they had been shot with a 'catapult' ,’ he said.
I was standing a squadron watch in the carrier's air operations, with a critical night-missing flight in tension on the 'catapult' .
This class of carrier does not utilize a steam 'catapult' for launching fighters but is equipped instead with a ski jump at the bow to allow short takeoffs.
She carried two Arado aircraft that could be launched by 'catapult' .
Two hours of original script and music 'catapult' the audience through the very best and freshest Northern Irish exportable wit.
He'll do it, and in the process, 'catapult' onto everyone's lists next year.
His mind was running too efficiently, like a 'catapult' launching a stone so fast that its pegs splintered.
Keller looked over at the steam rising from the 'catapult' on the forward deck, watched the sailors scurrying around to ready it to fire the next jet skyward.
A red warning light glowing on the panel indicated to him that the 'catapult' 's compressed air cylinders were under pressure and the safety lock on the supporting trolley had been released.
We settled in, completed our checks, and taxied to the 'catapult' - tension, run-up, wipeout and lights on.
The fuselage is strengthened for repeated carrier 'catapult' launches and arrester landings.
The seaplane, which had folding wings, was launched by 'catapult' off a runway on the deck.
Officers believe that someone is driving round in a car with a weapon capable of discharging the ball bearings, possibly a 'catapult' , and firing it randomly at properties.
The vehicle was launched from a 'catapult' and snagged as it glided off the launch rails.
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