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sling-
the stem of sling v.1 used in combs., as † sling-dart, a military engine for throwing darts; sling-fruit, a fruit which forcibly ejects the seeds when ripe; sling-net, a casting-net; sling-snake Zool., a name given to a genus of snakes belonging to the Colubrine group of the Colubridæ; sling-spear, a spear hurled with a throwing-stick; sling-trot, a loose swinging trot or pace.
1600Holland Livy xlii. lxv. 1154 Most hurt they had by certaine weapons called Cestrosphendonæ (*sling darts). A new kind of dart this was and lately devised.
a1899Oliver tr. Kerner's N.H. Plants II. 833 The fruits of Dorycnium and Acanthus may be taken as types of a large group designated by the name of *Sling-fruits.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. i. 6 Now one with *slingnet beats vpon the riuer brode and large, Reaching vnto the very depth. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. i. x. 112 He had been out dredging in ponds and ditches, and has his wet sling-net, with its imprisoned treasures..over his shoulder.
1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 205 We mention as a second genus of this group the *sling-snakes, of which there are about twenty known species.
1888Andrews Temple Mystic 79 None further the *sling-spear threw.
1853J. Palliser Solitary Rambles & Adventures Hunter in Prairies vi. 144, I saw my stag begin to fall in the rear of the band, and his pace slacken to a *sling trot. 1860W. H. Russell Diary in India I. xvi. 247 Stewart and I at once started off at a sling trot. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. xxix, The long sling-trot, so well known to the country people as the doctor's pace. |