Definitions for onagers

onagers on·a·ger

Spelling: [on-uh-jer]
IPA: /ˈɒn ə dʒər/

Onagers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in onagers (aegnors).

Definitions for onagers

noun

  1. a wild ass, Equus hemionus, of southwestern Asia.
  2. an ancient and medieval military catapult for throwing stones.

Origin of onagers

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin: machine for throwing projectiles, Latin onager, onagrus wild ass Greek ónagros (in both senses), alteration of ónos ágrios ass of the fields, wild ass (see

Examples for onagers

The onager, or wild ass, is not striped like the zebra, and is not near so elegant in figure.

It has sometimes occurred to me that perhaps the skin was that of Job's onager.

Balista (Latin, onager), an engine for propelling stones, worked by means of strongly-twisted cords.

The onager of Mesopotamia is a very beautiful animal, with its grey glossy coat, and its lively and rapid action.

The skin that you have laid before me is the skin of an onager.

This is supposed to be of the same pattern which is called an "onager" in the Latin books.

We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.

The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.

Word Value for onagers
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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