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Slinging   /slˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
Slinging

noun
1.
Throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling).



Sling

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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"Slinging" Quotes from Famous Books



... blinded. Exorcising the thought that sneaked into his mind, he closed the croup-hood, rearranged the trappings, and returned to Perfidion's side. Dragging the armor-encumbered man over to the black rohorse and slinging him over the saddle was no easy matter, but Mallory managed; then he picked up Perfidion's helmet and spear and set the former on the pommel and wedged the latter in one of the stirrups. Finally he mounted Easy Money and, encephalopathing the ...
— A Knyght Ther Was • Robert F. Young

... a hundred yards) he would look at them straight in the face and remark, "That's right, Fritz, lengthen them out a bit." He was out on a working party one day behind the trench, filling sandbags, and there were one or two reinforcements with him, when Fritz started slinging some "Whiz-bangs" over (these are small shells about fifteen pounds full of shrapnel, but they come with an awful speed, that's why they call them "Whiz-bangs," you hear the whiz just about the same time that you hear the bang); well, Fritz was sending quite a few over; I guess he had spotted ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien

... told Abbott, he had weathered much political mud slinging, but even his worst political enemies had spared him this. His adherents had made much of the fact that Enoch was slum bred and self made. That was the sort of story which the inherent democracy of America loved. But the Brown account ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... Sampson, lighting an unhallowed cigarette by way of Sabbath lamp, and slinging on his shabby cloak, repaired with the Red Beadle to a restaurant, where he ordered "forbidden" food for himself and ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... Miss Lucy's house was. And, if anything, all of us feeling nervouser yet. And saying nothing and not looking at each other. And Colonel Tom rolling cigarettes and fumbling fur matches and lighting them and slinging them away. Fur how does anybody know how women is going to take even the most ordinary ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis


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