> From: pwcs.StPaul.GOV!phile@medtron.medtronic.COM (Philip J Ethier)
> Subject: Re: Re: Mini Tossing....
> To: cobra@snakebyte.cdc.hp.com (Roland Dudley)
> Date: Fri, 8 May 92 8:12:45 CDT
> Cc: british-cars@hoosier.utah.edu
>
> >So what's the proper name for that steam driven thingie used
> to _________ aircraft from an aircraft carrier?
>
> "catapult" in my dictionary. (def. #2). Interestingly enough, the definitions
> #1 for "catapult" and for "trebuchet" are virtually identical.
Well, it was only meant to be a smart-ass rhetorical question but
looking it was a good suggestion. We must have the same dictionary or
the definitions are well established and standardized.
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