Definitions for slingers

slingers sling·er

Spelling: [sling-er]
IPA: /ˈslɪŋ ər/

Slingers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in slingers (egilnrss).

Definitions for slingers

noun

  1. a person or thing that slings.
  2. Machinery. flinger (def 2).

Origin of slingers

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at sling1, -er1

Examples for slingers

The slinger in most countries where his services were employed was lightly clad, and reckoned almost as a supernumerary.

He swung it rigidly with the rotary and menacing action of a slinger: the 14-lb.

To him willing to be a slinger, being enrolled in the company (of slingers).

He imparted to it the rapid motion that a slinger imparts to his sling.

At times there were bursts of laughter in their ranks and shouts of delight at the fall of some Egyptian slinger.

The slinger held it by the other end with both hands, and so could discharge a stone or bullet with great force.

He has no bag like the Hebrew slinger, no sinus like the Roman.

Even as the slinger distinctly sends the stone out of his sling, so the path of every hailstone is marked by the Divine power.

A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put one of his clay bullets into his thong, and swung round his arm.

Sometimes the name of the slinger was put on the ball,—so that the wounded could tell whom to thank, perhaps.

Word Value for slingers
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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