society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > cast (missiles) by sling > shoot with sling or catapult (3)
To strike, to bring or knock down, by means of a sling. rare.
To shoot or shoot at with a catapult.
transitive. slang. To hit (a person or thing) with a missile from a slingshot. Cf. tweaker, n. Obsolete. rare.