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# slinging

«slinging» in Mova's school 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/school/S/slinging/#m1)

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

### sense in the lessons

the sling game the island boys play in the tales; the hunter carries his kill slung over his shoulders.

### examples

- It was Kabo who broke my leg at the slinging game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slinging/#x1)
- He was slinging the deer over his shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slinging/#x2)
- Let us play at slinging again tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slinging/#x3)

### 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/school/S/slinging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.