Ballista is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 236 anagrams from letters in ballista (aabillst).
1590-1600; Latin, probably Greek *ballistā́s, dialectal variant of *ballistḗs, equivalent to báll(ein) to throw + -istēs -ist
The ballista was considerably larger and more expensive than this.
Trebuchet, treb′ū-shet, n. a military engine like the ballista.
Various names were applied to these weapons, the chief of which were the ballista and the catapult.
The ballista (Fig. 229) was in reality a large cross-bow, built to shoot long, heavy bolts or arrows.
Like a modern field gun, the ballista shot low and directly toward the enemy.
No ballista, however, is made without regard to the given amount of weight of the stone which the engine is intended to throw.
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