Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stone used as a missile to be hurled by a sling. These stones were sometimes cut with grooves, sometimes having two grooves crosswise.
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Examples
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A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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The standard also of Diabolus was beaten down, and his standard-bearer, Captain Much-Hurt, had his brains beat out with a sling-stone, to the no little grief and shame of his prince Diabolus.
The Holy War 2001
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A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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A sling-stone buzzed past me (someone less skilled than the Yawner, thank God), but we were flying now, and in a minute we were out of range, drumming across the mesa with that chorus of savage yells waking the echoes behind.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Quite likely Cervantes didnt mean Don Quixote to seem patheticperhaps he just meant him to be funny and intended it as a screaming joke when the poor old man has half his teeth knocked out by a sling-stone.
As I Please 1944
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But ever and again, some arrow or some sling-stone, or some fire-tube's dart would find its way up from below and through the defences, and there we would be with a man the less to carry on the fight.
The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905
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A sling-stone smote the marine next to him on the forehead.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Quickly now he sprang from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground, and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, when a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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