عَرَّادَةٌ

A certain thing, smaller than the مَنْجَنِيق, (S, O, K, TA,) but resembling it; (TA;) [i. e. an engine of war, apparently similar to that called by the Romans onager;] that casts a stone to a long distance: (Ham p. 307:) plural عَرَّادَاتٌ. (TA.)