Slings synonyms

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tosses
To throw with an initial upward direction.
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throws
(Figuratively) To send desperately.
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sends
To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination:
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launches
To hurl, discharge, or send off (a weapon, blow, etc.)
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hurls
To send with great vigor; thrust:
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heaves
To give out or utter with effort or pain:
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flings
To put or send suddenly or unexpectedly:
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chucks
To call, as a hen her chickens.
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casts
To let fall; drop:
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weights
(Statistics) To assign weights or a weight to.
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raises
To stir up; instigate:
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hoists
To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
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shoots
To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
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swings
To hang; be suspended
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suspends
To hang freely; underhang.
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hangs
To attach oneself as a dependent or an impediment; cling.
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depends
To have a dependence:
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dangles
To hang loosely and swing or sway to and fro:
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fires
To start or tend a fire in:
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shies
To move suddenly as when startled; jump; start; recoil
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pitches
(Intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
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hurtles
(Intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
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dashes
To move swiftly or impetuously; rush
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darts
To move suddenly and fast
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catapults
(Brit.) A slingshot
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mortars
(Countable, military) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
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bandages
A strip of material such as gauze used to protect, immobilize, compress, or support a wound or injured body part.
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moves (related)
To be disposed of by sale:
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weapons (related)
A means used to defend against or defeat another:
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dressings (related)
A therapeutic or protective material applied to a wound.
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Slings Sentence Examples

  • The weapons of the Fijians are spears, slings, throwing clubs and bows and arrows.

  • The glass is taken from the furnace in large iron ladles, which are carried upon slings running on overhead rails; from the ladle the glass is thrown upon the cast-iron bed of a rolling-table, and is rolled into sheet by an iron roller, the process being similar to that employed in making plate-glass, but on a smaller scale.

  • The war was begun by the Greeks without definite plan and without any generally recognized leadership. The force with which Germanos marched from Kalavryta against Patras was composed of peasants armed with scythes, clubs and slings, among whom the "primates" exer tion.

  • Slings are first heard of in Egyptian warfare in the 8th century B.C. The chariot was dOubtless introduced with the horse in the Hyksos period; several examples have been discovered in the tombs of the New Kingdom.

  • Although the army has been equipped with modern rifles, the common weapon of the people is the matchlock, and slings are still in use.

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