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▪ I. flinging, vbl. n.|ˈflɪŋɪŋ|
[f. fling v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fling in various senses.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 324 The hors..ruschit the folk in thair flynging. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 415 King Henry the fourth..kept the Saddle in all this leaping and flinging. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 443 Himselfe..by the flinging of his horse was cast out of his sadle. 1727Bailey vol. II, Flinging is the fiery, unruly Action of an unruly Horse, or a kicking with the Hind-legs.
2. concr. The thing thrown, a missile.
1618Bolton Florus (1636) 315 Plying them what with darts, and all sorts of flingings..scattred them all.
3. Comb., as flinging-tree: (a) the striking part of the flail; (b) ‘a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable’ (Burns' Poems 1800, Gloss.).
1785Burns Vision i. ii, The thresher's weary flingin-tree The lee-lang day had tired me.
▪ II. flinging, ppl. a.|ˈflɪŋɪŋ|
[f. fling v. + -ing2.]
That flings: a. Of a horse: That kicks, unruly. †b. Of the Fiend: Raging, rampant, turbulent (cf. quot. c 1435 in fling v. 1). †c. fig. Of a fault: Fatal, damning.
a.a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) F viij, A lusty horse fyerse and flingyng. 1585Higins Junius' Nomenclator 47/2 Equus calcitro, A flinging or kicking horse.
b.a1529Skelton Howe the douty Duke of Albany Poems II. 317, I render the, fals rebelle, To the flingande fende of helle. 1560Ingelend Disob. Child F ij b, The flyinge and [? = flingand] fiende go with my wyfe.
c.a1577Gascoigne Dan Barth. x, Wks. (1587) 67 At last (alas) she was vntrue, Whych flinging fault, because it is not new..I maruell not. |