Crossword-Solution: SLING
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| Sling | v. t. | An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force. |
| Sling | v. t. | The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke. |
| Sling | v. t. | A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension |
| Sling | v. t. | A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. |
| Sling | v. t. | A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering. |
| Sling | v. t. | A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder. |
| Sling | v. t. | A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| Sling | v. t. | To throw with a sling. |
| Sling | v. t. | To throw; to hurl; to cast. |
| Sling | v. t. | To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack. |
| Sling | v. t. | To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. |
| Sling | n. | A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLING | anagram | GLINS, LINGS |
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Sentences with SLING (5)
For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move.
What’s your line—mainly?” “Jour printer by trade; do a little in patent medicines; theater-actor—tragedy, you know; take a turn to mesmerism and phrenology when there’s a chance; teach singing-geography school for a change; sling a lecture sometimes—oh, I do lots of things—most anything that comes handy, so it ain’t work.
The poor Hospitaller was hurled from his saddle like a stone from a sling.” “Boast not of that,” said a Knight of St John, who was present; “your Temple champion had no better luck.
Then he reached down and lifted his rifle from the bottom of the canoe, slipping the sling over his shoulder.
Nathless then also time it is to strip Acorns from oaks, and berries from the bay, Olives, and bleeding myrtles, then to set Snares for the crane, and meshes for the stag, And hunt the long-eared hares, then pierce the doe With whirl of hempen-thonged Balearic sling, While snow lies deep, and streams are drifting ice.
Quotes with SLING (3)
Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face.
Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul
These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 198 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).