Re: OT: Repeatably lobbing "projectiles"

<bp@www.zefox.net> 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.