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Type of shot
Answer for the clue "Type of shot ", 5 letters:
sling
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Word definitions for sling in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to knock down" using a sling, later "to throw" (mid-13c.), especially with a sling, from Old Norse slyngva , from Proto-Germanic *slingwanan (cognates: Old High German slingan , German schlingen "to swing to and fro, wind, twist;" Old English slingan ...
Usage examples of sling.
Jahdo slung the furious Ambo over one shoulder and scrambled to his feet.
His lute was in its waterproof traveling case, slung across his back, because no Bard, not even a bardling, ever traveled without his instrument.
The motors will be slung under the body of the car, amidships, and there will also be room for some batteries there.
Whereupon Heeber whipped off his apron, shrugged his meat-cleaver shoulders into a tweed coat, jumped up in the air and slid down inside his raincoat, slung on his beardy cap, and thrust us at the door.
The kerchief, like the brolly he carried slung from his shoulder, was a simple, versatile, and durable piece of gear with any number of survival uses.
The Extractor must fly as fast and as true as the missile did from the sling of David to the head of Goliath.
Just forward of them, Longway and Kleinst had even tinier compartments, really not much larger than bunks with doors to close them in, then Hal and his guards slung their hammocks in a compartment which stretched from one side of the ship to the other.
When Mamo comes in and switches on a lamp, she is startled by a young body propelled forward off the wall like a stone from a sling.
Conan, slinging the precious jars across his shoulders, wincing at the contact with his mangled flesh.
Lo Manto watched a boy, about fifteen, walk past the stairwell, a plastic bag slung over one shoulder, his head down, ready to head out and brave the late afternoon storm.
When I joined the Service, you would find a lieutenant gammoning and rigging his own bowsprit, or aloft, maybe, with a marlinspike slung round his neck, showing an example to his men.
The crawling Molt leaped upright, an arm going back to the hilt of a slung weapon, while the other adult caught up an infant.
He had ordered his hammock to be slung under some trees, being excessively fatigued, and was sleeping, when a monitory lizard passed across his face.
Kalvan noted that several wore three-quarter lobster armor and each held a heavy-barreled musketoon slung across his back as well as a brace of pistols.
Telmon had carried a sling, too, and had taught Yama how to use it to hurl stones with killing force at ortolans and marmots.