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[rachelmanija]

Last night, in the middle of a long and I suspect totally insane-sounding speech I made to yhlee concerning Gundam Wing, guerilla warfare in 1600s India, and my longtime pet obsesssion, Maharashtrian battle lizards, I said, "And I think someone at sort of that time had a mechanical tiger. Or maybe I hallucinated that

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[meganbmoore]

I'd call them clockwork or something similar but original.

[nekonexus]

I'm inclined to clockwork as well. ^_^

[helen_keeble]

No, wait, what, battle lizards?!

*is enraptured by the concept*

[rachelmanija]

Tanaji uses a Giant Monitor Lizard to climb up the sheer steep fort wall

[helen_keeble]

Sometimes I am glad of my ignorance of history, for it means that SF/F still seems wild and fantastical.

Then I realize that I am missing out on giant wall-climbing battle-lizards, and run to the library to acquire research books and knowledge.

[angevin2]

I'd use mechanical. This was my instinct, and even if the characters don't speak English, OED backs me up: the oldest citation for mechanical meaning "powered by mechanisms" is 1567 (in the sense of "relating to craft of some sort" there are citations as early as 1485), while clockwork doesn't appear until 1679.

[rikibeth]

Clockwork or automaton!