Definitions For Pyroballogy

Noun

PYROBALLOGY (uncountable) (weaponry, obsolete, rare) The study#noun, study of artillery; the practice#noun, practice of using artillery as a weapon. : {{synonyms, en, pyrobology, pyroboly, q2=both obsolete, rare}}

Translations

Spanish: pirobalística, f

Etymology

called a Klotzbüchse{{refn, group=n, name=n1, From w:manuscripts of the austrian national library, codex vindobonensis 3069, folio 11, recto, from the collection of the {{w, Austrian National Library}} in vienna, austria.}}]] {{PIE root, en, gʷelH}} A variant of pyrobology, from pyro-, pos=prefix meaning ‘fire, heat’ (from "fire; lightning") + "to throw""word, speech; reason, reckoning; account, explanation). {{lang, grc, βάλλειν" is derived from βᾰ́λλω, , to hurl, throw; to strike, touch, ultimately from {{der, en, ine-pro, *gʷelH-, , to pierce; to throw, to hit by throwing}}.

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