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Sling   /slɪŋ/   Listen
Sling

noun
1.
A highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice.
2.
A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones.  Synonyms: catapult, slingshot.
3.
A shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel.  Synonym: slingback.
4.
A simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released.
5.
Bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck.  Synonyms: scarf bandage, triangular bandage.
verb
(past slung, archaic slang; past part. slung; pres. part. slinging)
1.
Hurl as if with a sling.  Synonym: catapult.
2.
Hang loosely or freely; let swing.
3.
Move with a sling.
4.
Hold or carry in a sling.



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"Sling" Quotes from Famous Books



... piteously, fell to the ground. Hereupon there came over the young man all at once a strange mood of regret and compassion for his poor victim. Instead of putting it immediately to death, he bound up the wounds as well as he could with moss and twigs of trees, placed it on a sort of canvas sling on which he was in the habit of carrying great fagots, and with much labour brought it home, in hopes that he might be able at last to cure and tame his fallen adversary. He did not find his father in the cottage, and it was not without some fear and anxiety that he laid the ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian • Various
... all out and pile it in the back yard. I'll have an ashman come and remove it. Whew! there is a dead hen under here; sling that out ...
— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris
... dirt and dead leaves which had adhered to them, I succeeded in returning them; although I expected the dog's death every instant. Taking off my neck tie, I made a pad, with which I secured the aperture, and bound him tightly round with a handkerchief. Making a sling with a couple of jackets upon a pole, we placed the dog carefully, within it, and carried him home. By dressing the wound every day with margosse oil, and keeping the pad and bandage in the place, to my astonishment the dog recovered, and ...
— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker
... of luck," the captain said. "That will do, Jacques. Take him forward and sling a hammock for him. Hang up his clothes in the cook's galley, they will be dry by the time ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... men had done the killing. After some deliberation a number of men walked off, one of them a venerable old man, armed after the old fashion with a bow and a handful of poisoned arrows, which he handled with deliberate care; he also carried a club in a sling over his shoulder. Of all those strong men, this old one seemed to me the most dangerous but also the most beautiful and the most genuine. After a while they returned, and two other men slunk ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser


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