Sling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• to throw with a sudden motion
• suspend or arrange (something), especially with a strap or straps, so that it hangs loosely in a particular position
• hoist or transfer (something) with a sling
• casually throw or fling
• hurl (a stone or other missile) from a sling or similar weapon
• mock; make fun
• pay a bribe or gratuity
• An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
• The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
• A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
• A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
• A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
• A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
• A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
• To throw with a sling.
• To throw; to hurl; to cast.
• To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
• To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
• hurl as if with a sling
• hang loosely or freely; let swing
• move with a sling
• hold or carry in a sling
• throw
• carry (something, especially a garment) loosely and casually about one's person
NOUN:
• a flexible strap or belt used in the form of a loop to support or raise a hanging weight
• a bandage or soft strap looped round the neck to support an injured arm
• a pouch or frame for carrying a baby, supported by a strap round the neck or shoulders
• a short length of rope used to provide additional support for the body in abseiling or climbing.
• a simple weapon in the form of a strap or loop, used to hurl stones or other small missiles
• a bribe or gratuity.
• a sweetened drink of spirits, especially gin, and water.
• bandage hung from the neck to support an injured hand or arm
• A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
• a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
• a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones
• a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel
• a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
• bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck

Words related to SLING

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Words that contain SLING

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How to use SLING in a sentence

• When, after a while, she came out, with her arm in a sling, she was peaceful in her mind and happy.
• In this position the loop of the sling, starting at the lower band, passes to the right of the left wrist, and thence around the left upper arm.
• The gun sling can also be used in this manner with advantage in the other positions.
• Then he bandaged it as best he could and arranged a sling round his neck.
• Dick had long been able to dispense with his sling, but the wound on his face was scarcely healed, and was still angry-looking and irritable.
• He looked ill, and his left arm and shoulder were bandaged and held in a sling.
• He excused himself for being obliged to take the holy volume in his left hand, for his right was paralyzed and his arm supported in a sling.
• For the first two or three days the discomfort of the bandage, the pressure of the sling on the neck and shoulder, the being unable to use the arm, would be a constant worry.
• The use of the sling by the Persian light-armed is quite certain.
• When he went to meet Goliath, how impossible his victory seemed, but the hand that swung the sling was strong enough to win the day.
• Sling the Sack Either a good sized sack well stuffed with rags or straw, or a small cloth sack filled with sand, may be used for this game.
• The Esquimaux also uses a javelin with considerable skill, and some are so dexterous in the use of the sling as to bring down wild fowl on the wing.
• Things had been against us from the first, and if the last stone in the sling of Fate was that we were to be wet through before we got home, it would be no more than I expected.
• My right arm was free from the sling and I dug my hands together.
• Secure the yard as in getting in guns, and sling the gun in the same manner.
• I had my arm in a sling, and my tunic flying from my right shoulder.
• Indeed, you cannot hope to hold the rifle steadily unless the sling is properly used.
• Notice that the sling has been slipped up and over the large muscles of the upper arm.
• Also the left hand after being run through the sling is grasping the gun to that the sling is to the right.
• The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
• They were afterwards taught to ride the great Horse, to Shoot, Dart, or Sling, and listed into several Companies, in order to perfect themselves in Military Exercises.
• He would have the skill to avoid the shooting-stars which are as dangerous as stones thrown from a sling.
• In time of action he wore a sling over his shoulders with three brace of pistols.
• The experiments and calculations of Dufour show that without the sling, other things remaining the same, the range of the shot would be reduced by more than a half.
• Little David will fade away till he gets his sling.
• This arrangement of the negroes, enabled them to sling to each other the bags of sand which was put in the baskets on the top of the fort.
• Some of the last of the sailors were then coming over in the sling.
• Some of them were somewhat battered and he could see that Hawley carried his arm in a sling.

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