The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ONAGERS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ONAGERS
- Where man must go for executives, the asses
- Asses
- Equids, one of them hidden by rambling rose
- An ogre’s destroyed due to stone-hurlers
- Queen surrounded by old horses and asses
- Riding a German’s equines
- Wild animals munched oranges
- Tricky range traversed by very big beasts
- Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water
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What does ONAGERS mean?
ONAGERS noun- The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).
- A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.