Definition of sling

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Sling (v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder..

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Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Gosling :: Gosling (n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.
Gosling :: Gosling (n.) A young or unfledged goose.
Nettles :: Nettles (n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
Houseling :: Houseling (a.) Same as Housling.
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Top-chain :: Top-chain (n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away..
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported..
Artillery :: Artillery (n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows..
Housling :: Housling (a.) Sacramental; as, housling fire..
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke..
Sling :: Sling (n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspensio.
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack..
Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin..
Slinging :: Slinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slin.
Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..
Unsling :: Unsling (v. t.) To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings..
Ram :: Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram..
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