Synonyms:
sling, catapult
Meaning: hurl as if with a sling
Usage examples
So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.
He went forth to meet the giant with nothing to help him save his staff and sling.
I guess she won't want to sling hash any more when she sees the pile of dust I've got."
Let me take my shepherd's staff and the sling I have used so often in meeting the wild beasts.'
He expected to scare the Cranes just by swinging the sling in the air, and shouting loudly at them.
The child at the gipsy's back did not need suck; nevertheless, Annabel's fingers worked at her bosom, and she moved the sling.
"Dear Alice," said Bernard, who had his arm in a sling, but otherwise looked what Conniston called "fit!", "how glad I am to see you!"
It was, somehow, less to Sabrina, still peering at the babe in the sling, than to Aunt Rachel, apparently asleep, that the gipsy seemed to reply.
He it was, they thought, who produced the thunder and the lightning by hurling stones with his sling; and the thunderbolts that fall, said they, are his children.
I carried my pistol in my hand, my whip thrust with the hatchets in the sling of my arm. I was anxious to be alone, to think out the position in which I was now placed.