Assertion: engine | /r/HasProperty | applied to the siege engine
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
value: to devices such as snares
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Engine was commonly applied also to weapons of war, such as the siege engine and to devices such as snares for catching game (hence gin trap, where gin is a short form of engine that also turned up in compounds such as horse gin for a horse-powered windlass).