What is "flinger"

Usage examples of "flinger".

Unseen, the loops of the Flinger were sinking through the Field into the hull.

Engineers recover, make sure the Flinger is ready and loaded, and keep double checking the Field generator.

A visit in May to the Italian cantatrice separated from her husband, would render the maiden an accomplished flinger of caps over the windmills.

Thyphoeus and Mimas, Porphyrion and Rhoecus, the giant brood of old, steeped in ignorance and wedded to corruption, had scaled the heights of Olympus, assisted by that audacious flinger of deadly ponderous missiles, who stands ever ready with his terrific sling--Supplehouse, the Enceladus of the press.

Which is an odd thing to call a world but the Ringers who settled worlds like that, worlds away and away from the empires and the commanderies and the commensalities, away away from the traderoads and the sweeplines, those Flingers were without doubt the oddest folk a sun ever shone on.

The rest of hir long spreding hayre was not seene, but couered ouer with a thinne vayle, edged with gould, hanging downe from the said flower and knot of pearle, to hir delicate shoulders, and flingering abroade with the ayre.

Which is an odd thing to call a world but the Ringers who settled worlds like that, worlds away and away from the empires and the commanderies and the commensalities, away away from the traderoads and the sweeplines, those Flingers were without doubt the oddest folk a sun ever shone on.

Flingers were common aboard ships that ran a fixed route in heavily populated systems.

And all this bickering over mere Hydro, too the deeper issues of finishing the Nudge Flingers would be far worse.

I want to join the crews mounting the Nudge Flingers, before all the really important work is already done.