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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



... rather grimly. "Very well, if you want him taken aback, I will take him aback, even if I have to resort to force." He withdrew his right arm from its sling and began unwrapping the bandages and throwing the ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

... the brothers was to have a chill, and appear too sick to go over the river. But two days passed before the opportunity arrived that enabled them to carry out their plan. When Alfred informed the ex-master of the illness of his brother, of course he must hasten to the sick boy with a nice brandy-sling for the chills, and he purchased a good quantity for them all. While he was handing a glass of sweetened brandy to the sick man, a company of men rushed in and held him, while Alfred and two brothers stripped him ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... time over it, though Sheridan was rebellious and scornful, being brought to a degree of tractability only by means of horrible threats and talk of amputation. However, he appeared at the dinner-table with his hand supported in a sling, which he seemed to regard as an indignity, while the natural inquiries upon the subject evidently struck him as deliberate insults. Mrs. Sheridan, having been unable to contain her solicitude several times during the day, and having been checked ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... arrives with her brother Dami. He is decorated with the iron cross, but he wears his arm in a sling. His sister has brought him home from the battle field in order to nurse him; she has caught cold herself, so that her whole face is bound up in a woolen shawl. Rosel, reappearing in a simple working-dress greets her old lover, but Dami speaks very bitterly, when he hears ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley

... evidence of carelessness. No deflector screens were set up. A Moreku tribesman could put a stone from a sling in there, and really mess them up—if he could sneak in close enough. He ...
— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole


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