sling
noun
- suspended chair, bed, or hammock, made of a framework connected to hanging straps or rope
- type of strap or harness designed to allow a shooter to conveniently carry a firearm on their body
- item of climbing equipment consisting of a tied or sewn loop of webbing
- ranged weapon
verb
- to throw, cast, hurl in some direction
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈslɪŋ/
noun
Etymology: From a shortening of spiderling.
- A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English slynge (noun), slyngen (verb), probably from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva (“to hurl”), from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to worm, twist”) or compare Old English slingan (“to wind, twist”), from the same source. Compare German schlingen (“to swing, wind, twist”), Danish and Norwegian slynge), from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, twist”) (compare Welsh llyngyr (“worms, maggots”), Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl like a snake”), Latvian slìkt (“to sink”)).
- To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
“Everyone could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.”
“slings a broken rock aloft in air”
- To throw with a sling.
- To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
- To hang or stow (a tool or other equipment or supplies) so that the object is ready to deploy.
- To sell, peddle, or distribute (often illicitly, e.g. drugs, sex, etc.).
“You may know a lot about chemistry, man, but you don't know jack about slinging dope.”