A siege hook is a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege. The method used was to penetrate the protective wall with the hook and then retract...

Shepherd's hook, a staff used in herding sheep or other animals Siege hook, an Ancient Roman weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege Tailhook...

edge used by the Thracians and Dacians. The name was later applied to a siege hook used by the Romans. Falx is a Latin word originally meaning 'sickle' but...

This is a list of siege engines invented through history. A siege engine is a weapon used to destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles,...

rural areas as tool and sometimes as a self-defence weapon. Billhook Falx Siege hook Harrison, Mark; Embleton, Gerry (1993–2005). Viking Hersir 793–1066 AD...

Ladders could be used to escalade over the defenses. Battering rams and siege hooks could also be used to force through gates or walls, while catapults,...

The siege of Gouda (1428) was a siege that ended the second phase of the Hook and Cod wars. After escaping her detention in 1425 from the Gravensteen...

the battering ram included the drill, the sapper's mouse, the pick, the siege hook, and the hunting ram. These devices were smaller than a ram and could...

The Hook and Cod wars (Dutch: Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten; sometimes semi-anglicised as the wars of the Hoecks and the Cabbeljaws) comprise a series...

bolt through the man's eye. During the siege, Hook meets the seigneur de Lanferelle, who disapproves of Hook's relationship with his daughter Melisande...

armor, as well as Roman identification tags. A Roman siege-hook, used both for stabbing and hooking onto the wall, was found in the breach. Only one human...

The siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 213–212 BC. The Romans successfully stormed the Hellenistic city of Syracuse after a protracted...

The Siege of Geertruidenberg (1351–1352) was a long siege of Geertruidenberg Castle during the first of the Hook and Cod wars. In 1345, Geertruidenberg...

be suspended, multiple hooks are sometimes located around the shoulders, upper arm, back, and the knees. Finding the proper hook placement and number involves...

The Siege of Zierikzee (1351) took place during the first of the Hook and Cod wars. In the middle ages Zierikzee was a town of substantial importance...

James Hook (3 June 1746 – 1827) was an English composer and organist and a friend of Joseph Haydn and Muzio Clementi. He was born in Norwich, the son of...

Frances Hook (1847–March 17, 1908) claimed that she, disguised as a man, enlisted as a soldier in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. She stated...

S.W.A.T.: Under Siege is a 2017 American action film directed by Tony Giglio. It is the third installment of the S.W.A.T. film series and was released...

Siege of Utrecht may refer to: Siege of Utrecht (1345) [fr; nl], laid by William II, Count of Hainaut Siege of Utrecht (1483), during the Hook and Cod...

This is an overview of Chinese siege weapons. Siege ladders were used starting from the Warring States period. A hinged folding ladder known as the "cloud...

The siege of Utrecht took place between June 23 and August 31, 1483 as part of the Hook and Cod wars and the Second Utrecht Civil War. The Burgundians...

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is a 1989 American comedy crime film starring Bubba Smith, David Graf and Michael Winslow. It was directed by Peter...

The siege of Suiyang was a military campaign during the An Lushan rebellion, launched by the rebel Yan army to capture the city of Suiyang from forces...

historians seem to describe it as a sort of crane equipped with a grappling hook that was able to drop and partly submerge an attacking ship down into the...

government either concealed information about or outright falsified the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September...

all kinds by the Gauls [...] They, in fact, used ropes to deflect the siege hooks and after securing them they would pull them in [...] they would remove...

The Battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified...

The siege of Deventer was a siege of Deventer (then a major Hanseatic city) in 1456 during a struggle between Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy and the...

There have been 35 seasons in nine years of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege in the form of downloadable content. In most of the seasons, the downloadable...

the combination of the words kagi meaning hook and nawa meaning rope. The kaginawa is a type of grappling hook used as a tool in feudal Japan by the samurai...