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sling(e
n.
Additional spellings:
slinge
33 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) A hand-held weapon for throwing stones or similar missiles, a sling; also
fig.
;
honde sling
;
sling slaughte
, game killed with a sling;
sling ston
, a stone used as a missile to be thrown from a…
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