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SLINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slinger mean? 

SLINGER (noun)
  The noun SLINGER has 1 sense:

1. a person who uses a sling to throw somethingplay

  Familiarity information: SLINGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLINGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who uses a sling to throw something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("slinger" is a kind of...):

thrower (someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm))

Derivation:

sling (hurl as if with a sling)


 Context examples 


He was still three paces, however, from his victim's side when John upon the cliff above plucked up a huge boulder, and, poising it for an instant, dropped it with fatal aim upon the slinger beneath him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Spanish slinger, seeing the youth lie slain, and judging from his dress that he was no common man, rushed forward to plunder him, knowing well that the bowmen above him had expended their last shaft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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