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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



... occurring to one's acquaintances are known in twenty-four hours at the longest. We have not come at all into communication with Herwarth and Steinmetz, but know that they are both well. G——- quietly leads his squadron with his arm in a sling. Good-bye, I must ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
 
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... horses would begin fidgeting, and pulling at their bridles, and shifting round to get their tails to the wind. They clearly did not understand the necessity of the position, and were inclined to be moving stable-wards. So he had to get up again, sling the bridles over his arm, and take to his march up and down the plot of turf; now stopping for a moment or two to try to get his cheroot to burn straight, and pishing and pshawing over its perverseness; now going again and again to the brow, and looking along the road which led ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
 
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... leafy tent for victory graced, Foresnatching fate with impious haste From gods that rule the fight. Thus fools have perish'd; and thus thou, Spurr'd to sheer death, art blinded now. Feeble thy clouds of clattering horse To dash his steady ordered force; From twanging bow and sling Dintless the missile hail is pour'd, Where the Tenth Legion wields the sword, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
 
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... happens in the woods, the limb should be bound with handkerchiefs, suspenders, or strips of clothing, to a piece of board, pasteboard, or bark, padded with moss or grass, which will do well enough for a temporary splint. Always put a broken arm into a sling after ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
 
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... casual manner that his hand was hurt. And when he showed it to us, I almost screamed, for it was very badly hurt—all torn and lacerated. He had it wrapped in his handkerchief, but we made him undo it, and I bathed it and Father put iodine on, and I fixed him a sling to wear it in. The thing about it was that he didn't seem to want to tell us how it happened. Said he met a friend who invited him to ride in their car and had taken him for a long drive. And on the way home they'd had a little breakdown, and Ted had ...
— The Dragon's Secret • Augusta Huiell Seaman
 
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