Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Repeatably lobbing "projectiles" Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:05:52 +0000 Organization: Poppy Records Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1r3dzj8.n1xoxji32281N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> References: X-Trace: individual.net LJxEgbF0NazI8ld8xUaxZA3sTLvFShnrNFxIpFjcdoRoaf4iwj X-Orig-Path: liz Cancel-Lock: sha1:O6IxyFeYwaJeuFnYENis4yTqeWA= sha256:xqjl8lm+VkefWYajDSdgvq8Cee3dMPsmAX8Vi/SnjHs= User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4.6 Bytes: 1357 wrote: > Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote: [...] > Another thought would be a crossbow-like mechanism with a motorized > winding mechanism. Apparently the technical term for the winding mechanism of a crossbow is "Crannequin", which sounds as though it could be quite naughty - so it is a word we ought to use more often. -- ~ Liz Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk