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Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.

Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.

Onager :: Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery..

Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.

#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..

Artillery :: Artillery (n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows..

Gesling :: Gesling (n.) A gosling.

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack..

Gosling :: Gosling (n.) A young or unfledged goose.

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..

Misling :: Misling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misl.

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 strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspensio.

Slinging :: Slinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slin.

Sling :: 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..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc..

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