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slungshot

slungshot noun: a maritime tool consisting of a weight (the "shot") affixed to the end of a long cord, used to cast line from one location to another and sometimes as an improvised weapon.

Noun

slungshot (plural slungshots)

  1. A maritime tool consisting of a weight (the "shot") affixed to the end of a long cord, used to cast line from one location to another and sometimes as an improvised weapon.
    • All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung[-]shot could not have brought her down better.1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter II, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 35

Forms of slungshot

pluralslungshots

Origin of slungshot

From slung + shot.

Questions about slungshot

What does slungshot mean?
Slungshot means a maritime tool consisting of a weight (the "shot") affixed to the end of a long cord, used to cast line from one location to another and sometimes as an improvised weapon.
What part of speech is slungshot?
Slungshot is a noun.
What is the plural of slungshot?
The plural of slungshot is slungshots.

Words near slungshot in the dictionary

  1. slung out
  2. slung over
  3. slung the hatchet
  4. slung to
  5. slung up
  6. slungshot
  7. slungshots
  8. Slunj
  9. slunk
  10. slunken
  11. slunks

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