slung-shot

Filipinos; in one hand a slung-shot, in the other a Bible, open at the text “Do unto others,” etc.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Armstrong strike the fatal stroke, with a slung-shot undoubtedly, and by "the light of the moon."

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

As the statement about the slung-shot blow was made by a man who disputed the ox-yoke accident, and that the fatal hurts were received in the free fight at the camp-meeting, it was necessary that he should be explicit.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Into the midst of the drunken and yelling crowd dashed the officers; crackling French oaths rolling over their tongues with a snapping intonation, and their pistols whirling right and left like slung-shot, and dropping a mutineer at every blow.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

One night, for instance, in the merry month of May of this year, a gang of about a dozen armed ruffians boarded a Third Avenue horse-car somewhere in these latitudes, knocked down the conductor with a slung-shot, robbed and otherwise maltreated several of the passengers, and got clear away before the first policeman had made his appearance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

The woollen cap and slung-shot should give a clever detective a good clue to work upon.

The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier A.L.O. C.

Furthermore, it was said that Metzgar was not left insensible on the field of battle, but was going home beside a yoke of oxen when the yoke-end cracked his skull; it was this, and no slung-shot, that caused his death the following day.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Early in the fight, by a blow from his slung-shot, he had succeeded in breaking the bear's lower jaw.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

Any such firearms, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, metal knucks or any weapons of like kind shall be confiscated as now provided by law.

The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia 1932

In its musty vaulted dungeons were still the massive, rust-corroded irons for feet, waist and neck of prisoners of the old brutal days; blind owls stared upon us; once the boy brought down with his honda, or slung-shot, one of the bats that circled uncannily above our heads.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921