sling-stones

If the enemy is showering you with arrows or sling-stones, you want a shield.

The Spear « Isegoria 2008

Arcarnanian light infantry appeared, and availing themselves of the position in which Agesilaus was encamped against the mountain side, assailed him with volleys of sling-stones and rocks from the razor-edge of the mountain, without suffering any scathe themselves.

Hellenica 2007

The next day, therefore, they came together and consulted; and after consultation had, they resolved to give an answer to the captain of Diabolus with slings; and so they did at the rising of the sun on the morrow; for Diabolus had adventured to come nearer again, but the sling-stones were to him and his like hornets.

The Holy War 2001

Some had shouted and pleaded from the balconies until sling-stones or javelins brought them down, and some - after days of suffering - had jumped.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

The riders were away by then, circling around heaind the footmen to drive them forward into the dwar-anirnmes. woven wave of sling-stones did its work, then another, and wooderv Daewar found themselves hand to hand with wouldn. lds of howiing, slashing humans, some attacking there yy, some just trying to get through, away from the Thtited demons behind them.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

Some had shouted and pleaded from the balconies until sling-stones or javelins brought them down, and some - after days of suffering - had jumped.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

The riders were away by then, circling around heaind the footmen to drive them forward into the dwar-anirnmes. woven wave of sling-stones did its work, then another, and wooderv Daewar found themselves hand to hand with wouldn. lds of howiing, slashing humans, some attacking there yy, some just trying to get through, away from the Thtited demons behind them.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

The farmer-warriors fought bravely, and the Priests prayed hard, but sling-stones and cotton armor were no match for bullets and Toledo steel.

The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

One of his sling-stones fell to the ground and by mischance bounced from a half-buried rock with a loud click.

The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

< 19 > Stone was used for a great many other purposes, such as scrapers, sling-stones, hammers, saws, and so on.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen