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1.
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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2.
tak
n.(1)
23 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A clasp or similar fastener; (b) a nail of some kind;— ?also coll. [quot. c1390], perh. with play on sense (a);
tak nail
.
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3.
timber
n.(2)
9 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
A specific quantity of furs, usu. a bundle of forty skins.
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