A trebuchet for slinging stones--invented in Flanders, and very effective at short range--was being fitted together on the roof of the Barbican.
The fantastic arms of the mangonels and trebuchets, and other slinging instruments rose grimly above the battlements.
Jeffard turned to go, slingingthe lightened haversack over his shoulder.
From these two rock-bound harbors went thousands of trained seamen to man the privateers and the ships of the Continental navy, slinging their hammocks on the gun-decks beside the whalemen of Nantucket.
The door won't stay closed without being bolted, and these ugly black devils of Sing's have taken such a fancy to the place and the heat, that I have been busy all day slinging them outside.
He caught the inert Mayor by the arms, dragged him across the soft flooring of hoof shavings and metal-dust, to the outside, slinging him unceremoniously on to the heap of broken iron beside the frozen horse-trough.
These I washed in the icy water, then slinging two of them on my shoulder I went in quest of the cow.
We whistled to move the second stag but he took not the slightest notice of us, and it was not until we gave him, and incidentally the first stag, our wind that they both went away over the plain at a slinging trot.
He both got our wind and saw us and went off at a real gallop instead of the ordinary long slinging trot.
A very busy day they had, for in the evening a transport came into harbour loaded with mules from Suvla, and tried the simple plan of slinging them overboard and letting them swim to the shore.
Their long distance missiles were leaden bullets, and so skilful were they that it is said they could hit with certainty the face of a foe standing at slinging distance.
Slinging their weapons behind them the scouts began to climb the crags.
In the earliest times there were bands of slingers, and probably whole regiments of them, and there is little doubt that the art of slinging preceded that of archery.
Illustration] In country districts, slinging of stones is a common sport; and the sling so used consists simply of a piece of leather cut into the subjoined form, to which are affixed two cords, one having a loop.
Slinging is a very good exercise for imparting strength to the arm, but young slingers should be very careful where they send their stones, or they may do much damage.
Slinging the bags over their shoulders, the two carefully deposited in one of them an abundance of ammunition, which they had calculated should last them with ordinary care for a considerable period.
Slinging bags and weapons over their shoulders, Tyler and his companion left the dinghy in her hiding-place, and having marked an adjacent tree, returned to the bank of the river once more.
After a prolonged argument, which the infuriated Germans might easily have interrupted by close-range volleys, the difficulty was adjusted by the unfixing of bayonets and the slinging of rifles.
The first night passed rather pleasantly, for the weather was fine, and we encamped in the forest, making large fires and slinging our hammocks between the trees.
Jack at once jammed his hat on his head, and, slinging his rifle and bandolier over his shoulder, set out to keep the appointment.
We will do anything we can to make amends," Tom said, slinging his skates over his shoulder with a jangling of steel.
His men are slinging their carbines, as the enemy have done," replied Deck.
Slinging his carbine, and buckling on his belt, he hastened to the lieutenant, and, without any unnecessary manifestations of deference, stated the plan he had brewed in the top of the tree.
Yet they kept at it stubbornly, slinging their carbines on their backs, and climbing up hand over hand in places where they had lost the trail.
Again we are told, that when David fled to Ziklag, he was joined by a party of valiant men of the tribe of Benjamin, who could use both the right and the left in slinging of stones and shooting arrows out of a bow.
The river had been still too full to cross by cart, so a wire apparatus for slinging mails and passengers from one bank to another had been brought into requisition.
Slinging his box over his shoulder, he ran to the scene of the assault just in time to rescue Teddy's stock of newspapers from beneath the feet of a dray-horse, and followed with all speed after the officer and prisoner.
We'll see," replied Fritz, taking up the fowling piece and slinging a powder flask and shot case round his neck.
I'm off, old fellow," said the young sailor, slinging the basket of freshly picked peas on his arm and leaving the bundle of potatoes for Fritz to carry.
Here we are at last, mother," said Eric, slinging the bag containing his sea kit on to the railway platform.
The besiegers turned two of their slinging engines on this monster, and kept constantly slinging smaller stones on to the platform of the barbican, and killed two of the engineers.
And now the engineers proceeded to the unusual step of slinging fifty-pound stones at an individual.
The curtains were overlapped with penthouses somewhat shattered by the mangonels, and other slinging engines of the besiegers.
A buoy made of staves, somewhat in the form of a double cone; large in the middle, and tapering rapidly to the ends; the slinging of which is a good specimen of practical rigging tact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slinging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: archery; casting; firing; gunnery; musketry; pitching; projection; shooting
