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The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Shak. At one sling Of thy victorius arm, well-pleasing Son. Milton.

One who slings, or uses a sling.

A gosling. [Prov. Eng.]

A young or unfledged goose.

Sacramental; as, housling fire. [R.] Spenser.

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling. I was his nursling once, and choice delight. Milton.

To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings. Totten.

Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.

The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.]

To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. Uzziash prepared . . . slings to cast stones. 2 Chron. xxvi. 14 Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. Acts. xii. 8 We must be cast upon a certain island. Acts. xxvii. 26.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

ting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin. Babyisms and dear diminutives. Tennyson.

motion or action by violence; to drive. As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.

small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

Same as Housling.

A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duck-ling, dosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.