Usually means: Wild Asian ass, ancient catapult.
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  1. onager: Merriam-Webster
  2. onager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. onager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. onager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. onager: Vocabulary.com
  6. onager: Wordnik
  7. onager: Wiktionary
  8. onager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. onager: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. onager: Dictionary.com
  11. onager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Onager (siege weapon), Onager (weapon), Onager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Onager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. onager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. onager: Rhymezone
  16. Onager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. onager: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. onager: FreeDictionary.org
  19. onager: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. onager: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. onager: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. onager: Encyclopedia

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  1. Onager: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (onager)

noun:  The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).
noun:  (military, historical) A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.

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