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testudos's Usage Examples:

Muhammad brought trebuchets and testudos to use against the fortress, but was unable to penetrate it with these.

demolish the idol worshipped by his tribe, and to acquire catapults and testudos from his tribe, to use in the Siege of Taif.

The Roman army begins trying to breach the wall using testudos, mantlets, siege towers, and battering rams.

Gauls as forming phalanxes (likely similar to the medieval shieldwall) and testudos in battle, and using spears as their main weapon, as opposed to swords.

scorpions; multi-storey siege towers with a battering ram on the bottom floor; testudos – battering rams with metal plating on the top; τρίβόλοι – iron tridents.

testudos's Meaning':

a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification

Synonyms:

protective cover; protection; protective covering;

Antonyms:

inactivity; insecurity;