Sling \Sling\, v. t. [imp. {Slung}, Archaic {Slang}; p. p. {Slung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slinging}.] [AS. slingan; akin to D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG. slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva, sl["o]ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti to creep.] 1. To throw with a sling. ``Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.'' --Judg. xx. 16.
2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
Sling \Sling\, v. t. [imp. {Slung}, Archaic {Slang}; p. p. {Slung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slinging}.] [AS. slingan; akin to D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG. slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva, sl["o]ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti to creep.] 1. To throw with a sling. ``Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.'' --Judg. xx. 16.
2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
Slung \Slung\, imp. & p. p. of {Sling}.
{Slung shot}, a metal ball of small size, with a string attached, used by ruffians for striking.
What's kakko ii today, of course, can be passe tomorrow. Tennis was all the rage in the mid-1980s, when young women slung rackets over their shoulders purely for show as they walked around Tokyo.
That wind storm slung a parked jetliner into a fuel truck at Newark International Airport and badly damaged three jets at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said.
As they left the skyscrapers and hotels, seized on Saturday, the mutineers sang the theme song of their Scout Ranger regiment. Rifles, bazookas, machine guns and bandoleers of ammunition were slung over their shoulders.
Cassidy said it is believed that the Antarctic moon rocks got to Earth when, in some ancient time, an asteroid smashed into the lunar surface with such great violence that chunks of the moon were slung into orbit.
Members of the rock group entered the crowd of onlookers, and bass guitarist Michael Peter Balzary, also known as Flea, picked up a 20-year-old student from Virginia and slung her over his shoulder, police said.
Locke carried the flute, a long wooden recorder fashioned from cedar with the mouthpiece made into the head of a bird, wrapped in cloth in a long leather tube slung across his shoulder.
In a late night television address to the nation on Wednesday, he asserted that the presidency should not be subjected to such attacks. However, some of the mud being slung by the discredited security officials is starting to stick.