sling

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But these times when I'm out of the sling are absolutely delicious, free of the clammy hunk of foam pressing up against me, free of the unforgiving sling holding my arm at a right angle across my belly (which is growing as fast as my arm is shrinking).

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  1. noun A weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a stone is whirled and then let fly.
  2. noun A slingshot.
  3. noun A looped rope, strap, or chain for supporting, cradling, or hoisting something, especially:
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  • Now they could get through, but the sling was around Alexi's waist, and they had to wait for him to be hoisted up, and the line to come back down, all the time listening to axes beating on splintering wood. —  FSFDec2003
  • No. But my sling was there, the leather straps wrapped around the cup. —  Robin Hobb
  • When I moved my arm to wind up momentum for the sling, the deer would startle and be gone. —  forestmage
  • The thicker rope that his sling was attached to flexed, bouncing him up and down. —  THE LAST OF THE WILDS
  • Valder knew that casting the spell required a mysterious powder or two, and the little hermit's supply of whatever it was had probably burned and would not be readily replaced He ran through a quick mental inventory of what he had and decided that the sling was his best bet for obtaining food. —  Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword_v1.0
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strap ·  hook ·  splint ·  bandage ·  rope ·  belt ·  harness ·  pouch ·  sheath ·  pulley ·  dagger ·  hose

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sling:   slings ·  slung ·  slinging
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English slinge.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English slingen, slyngen (preterit slang, slong, past participle slungen, slongen), from Anglo-Saxon slingan (preterit *slang, past participle *slungen; very rare) = Middle Dutch slinghen = Middle Low German Low German slingen = Old High German slingan, Middle High German slingen, German schlingen, wind, twist, sling, = Icelandic slyngva, slöngva, sling, fling, throw (cf. Swedish slunga = Danish slynge, sling: a secondary form; Swedish slin-ga, twist, from G.); cf. freq. D. Middle Low German slingeren, toss, = German schlingern, schlenkern = Swedish slingra = Danish slingre, fling about; cf. Lithuanian slinkti, creep, English slink, slike; prob. one of the extended forms of Tent. √ sli, in slip, slide, etc. Hence ult. slang, and perhaps slang.
  2. Cf. Middle Low German Low German slingen (German schlingen), swallow, altered by confusion with the verb mentioned under sling, Middle Low German slinden = Dutch slinden = Old High German slintan, Middle High German slinden = Gothic (Moesogothic) fra-slindan, swallow; perhaps a nasalized form of the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon slīdan, English slide: see slide.
 

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