slungshot

Delivered with all the power of arm and shoulder, propelled by the upthrust of the powerful legs as Kane straightened, the blow was like that of a slungshot.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

Chip's success by knocking him down with a slungshot and carrying him off.

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

As long as snowballs were the only weapon, no one was much hurt, but a stone may be put in a snowball, and in the dark a stick or a slungshot in the hands of a boy is as effective as a knife.

Washington (1850–1854) 1918

Demeter's exploration produced a bulldog revolver, a slungshot, a packet of pamphlets, and several small red flags.

All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

One of them hit me over the head with a slungshot, and they started to shooting at me.

Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1896

"By the way," he said, "how shall we bring him down -- with a slungshot or a catapult?"

The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

As a result of these gifts he was ever hitting something with either the arrows of speech or the slungshot, which produced a public impression of ceaseless activity and of material accomplishment.

The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

Entirely unaware of His Majesty's unerring aim in hitting large surfaces at short range, we welcomed him cordially to our midst, and rather unwisely presented him with the freedom of the jungle, a ceremony which carried with it the privilege of bagging anything he could hit with his slungshot, in season or out of it.

The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

It was the rule that the man who was the readiest in the use of fist and slungshot at home had the greatest diffidence about forming a close acquaintance with cold lead in the neighborhood of the front.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

It was the rule that the man who was the readiest in the use of fist and slungshot at home had the greatest diffidence about forming a close acquaintance with cold lead in the neighborhood of the front.

Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887