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# slinging

«slinging» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **throwing stones with a sling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (slinging, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Slinging is throwing stones with a sling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#m1)

2) Slinging is carrying something swung loosely over the shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Chronicles describes soldiers who shot stones with slings and arrows. Skill with both hands was prized, as with the left-handed Benjaminites. In the primary lessons: the sling game the island boys play in the tales; the hunter carries his kill slung over his shoulders.

### examples

- And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. (Writings 2CH.26.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#x1)
- They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. (Writings 1CH.12.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#x2)
- It was Kabo who broke my leg at the slinging game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#x3)
- He was slinging the deer over his shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#x4)
- Let us play at slinging again tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slinging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/slinging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.