variant of TRABUCH.
c. 1482. J. Kay, trans. Caoursin’s Siege of Rhodes (1870), ¶ 11. A man of Grece,… counseyled the Lord Mayster and the Rhodyans to make and ordeygne an engyne called Trebuke lyke a slynge, which was grete hye and myghty, and casted grete and many stones into the hoste of the Turkes.
