siling

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An instrument for throwing stones or bullets, consisting of a strap and two strings attached to it.
• noun A kind of hanging loop in which something, as a wounded limb, is supported: as, to have one's arm in a sling.
• noun A device for grasping and holding heavy articles, as casks, bales, etc., while being raised or lowered.
• noun A thong or strap, attached to a hand-firearm of any sort, to allow of its being carried over the shoulder or across the back_: and usually adjustable with buckles or slides. See gunsling, 2.
• noun The chain or rope that suspends a yard or graff.
• noun A piece of artillery in use in the sixteenth century.
• noun A sweep or swing; a stroke as if of a missile cast from a sling.
• noun In a millstone, a swinging motion from side to side.
• noun In dynamics, a contrivance consisting of one pendulum hung to the end of another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• Obs. or Prov. Eng. a. & n. from sile to strain.
• [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] a colander.