slingdog

An iron hook with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other for a rope. Used in pairs for hoisting, hauling, rafting, . *sling-man, s. A slinger. (Sylvester.) *sling-stone, s. A stone hurled from a sling. "The arrow cannot make him flee: sling -stones are turned with him into stubble." -Job xli. 28. sling (2), s. [Cf. Low Ger. slingen; Ger. schlingen to drink, to swallow.] An American drink. [GIN-SLING.] sling (pa. t. *slang, slung , pa. par. *slongen, slung), v. t. & i . [A.S. sling an (pa. t. slang , pa. par. slungen); cog. with Dut. slingeren to to , to sling; Icel. slyngva, slöngva (pa. t. slõng , slaung , pa. par. slunginn )=to sling, to throw; Dan. slynge ; Swed. slung a; Ger. schlingen (pa. t. schlang , pa. par. ge schlungen). Prob. from the same root as slide , slip , slink , and sleek .] A. Transitive : 1. To throw, to hurl, to cast. 2. Specif.: To hurl or throw with or from a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an hair breadth and not mi ." Judges xx. 16. 3. To hang, so as to swing; to suspend in slings. "The yard is slung nearly in the middle, or upon an equipoise."-Cook: Second Voyage , bk. iii., ch. ii. 4. To move or swing by a rope which suspends the thing moved; to place in or move by slings in order to hoist, lower, or move from one position to another. *B. In trans.: To move with long, swinging, or elastic strides. slinger, *slyng-er, subst. [Eng. sling, v.; -er.] One who slings; one who uses or is skilled in the use of a sling. "They repulsed the cavalry, cut the archers and slingers to pieces."-Bladen: Cæsar's Comment . , bk. iii., ch. xxii.