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▪ I. slinger, n.1|ˈslɪŋə(r)|
Also 5–6 slynger, -ar(e.
[f. sling v.1 + -er. Cf. OHG. sling-, slengari, -eri, etc. (MHG. slingære, -er, G. schlinger), MDu. slinger, MSw. sliungare (Sw. slungare); also OF. eslingour, -ur, etc.]
1. One who casts missiles by means of a sling, esp. a soldier armed with a sling. Now chiefly arch. or Hist.
1382Wyclif 2 Kings iii. 25 The cyte is enuyround of slyngers. a1400Octouian 1599 (W.), Spermen, slyngers, and arblasteres. c1440Promp. Parv. 459/2 Slyngare, fundibuiarius. c1550N. Smyth tr. Herodian iii. 33 All the Mauritanyan Slyngers that were in his seruyce. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 211 The Inhabitants [of Dorset] of all English-men were the cunningest slingers. 1671Milton Samson 1619 Behind [him] Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears. 1737Whiston Josephus, Wars Jews i. vii. §3 The slingers of stones beat off those that stood above them. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. l. V. 241 The heights had been occupied by the archers and slingers of the confederates. 1825Scott Betrothed iv, Their own archers..were supported by numerous bodies of darters and slingers. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol., Work & Days, The sympathy of eye and hand by which..a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone.
2. One who flings or throws. (Cf. ink-slinger.)
1902Sat. Rev. 5 July 12/2 Last year he was a mere slinger, to-day he bowls a capital length. 1920D. J. Knight in P. F. Warner Cricket i. 45 The man [sc. fast bowler] who bowls with his arm more or less horizontal—a slinger. 1926Variety 29 Dec. 5/3 The erudite word slingers. Ibid., The slang slingers. 1944E. Blunden Cricket Country iv. 52 T. was soon displaced for a less expensive slinger. 1979Vole June 45/2 The slingers of the mid-nineteenth century terrified lesser batsmen.
3. Chiefly Services' slang. Bread soaked in tea. Usu. pl. Also applied loosely to other food.
1882F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 267 Slingers. Kettle broth made of boiling water, bread, salt, and pepper, with sometimes a little butter. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 256/2 Slingers,..bits of bread floating in tea. 1895Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 30 May 2/2 You won't have no mind for slingers, not to-morrow—..bein' sick! 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 261 Slingers, tea or coffee with bread soaked in it. Dumplings. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 108 Slingers, ship's biscuits or bread soaked in cocoa. A snack eaten before slinging one's hammock. Supper is very early in the Navy and slingers help to fortify the men until breakfast the next day. 1965‘J. le Carré’ Looking Glass War ii. 31 We had the canteen in the old days. Slinger and wadge.
▪ II. slinger, n.2|ˈslɪŋə(r)|
[f. sling v.2]
A workman employed in slinging.
1881Daily News 16 Nov. 7/1 A slinger in the employ of Messrs. Maudslay, the engineers,..who was killed by the fall of a boiler plate which he was..slinging. 1969Daily Tel. 2 Apr. 1/1 The slip was dropped from an overall pocket by a slinger—a man who guides car bodies and other parts into position on the assembly track—and it showed that he was earning as much as the assembly workers themselves. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry viii. 69 In heavy electrical engineering, where the crane-driver can see the slinger directing his load, they communicate by shouts. 1982Sunday Times 27 June 3/1 I've been in the ropery 12 years and my husband's been in the yard, as a slinger, for 17 years.
▪ III. slinger, n.3|ˈslɪŋə(r)|
[f. sling n.5]
One who is given to drinking sling.
1807C. W. Janson Stranger in Amer. 299, I know of no custom more destructive than that which is practised by slingers and eleveners.
▪ IV. † ˈslinger, v. Sc. Obs.—1
[ad. Du. slingeren (Fris. slingerje) or LG. slingern (Da. slingre, G. schlingern), frequent. of slingen: see sling v.1]
intr. To swing, roll.
1767W. Meston Poems 129 As ships, that bear more sail then ballast, Slinger before the very smallest Unequal blast. |