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Slung, n. Also: slong(e, sloung, slyng, sling(e. [ME and e.m.E. sling, slenge (Cursor M.), scling (14th c.), slynge (Trevisa), MLG slinge, MSw. slonga (Sw. slunga), ON slǫngva (Icel. slanga). Cf. Sling n.] a. A sling, an implement or weapon used to hurl stones, by hand. Cf. Staff-slung. Also attrib. with stane. b. ? A siege-weapon used to hurl large stones or missiles or ? an example of Slang n. or of a above.a. a1400 Leg. S. vii 466.
With alkyne instrument of were, As gyne, slonge, darte & spere 1494 Loutfut MS 130a.
Thai suld be wsit … to cast with the slonge 1531 Bell. Boece I 229.
Efter thaim followit men with licht harnes, and schot incredibill nowmer of stanis and ganyeis, with corsbowis and slongis 1531 Bell. Boece II 190.
Archearis, castaris of dartis and slongis a1586 Lindsay MS 83b.
Men of weire suld … cast dartis … schwte, cast with the slong [etc.](b) ?1438 Alex. ii 1329.
Thay … can stanes cast, … Sum … with handes and sum with sloung 1533 Boece 182. 1533 Bell. Livy I 95/4.(c) ?1438 Alex. ii 9163.
Thay … Kest stanes with slungis and hurt him 1513 Doug. x iii 26.
Thai defend with slungis [Sm. slyngis, Ruddim. slungis] and stane cast 1535 Stewart 20707.
With bow & slung to cast arrow & stone 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Funda, a slung 1596 Dalr. I 145/17.
Appoynteng that ȝoung men soulde vse for waepinis a slung with a bow 1629 Boyd Last B. 179.
Felled downe with a stone out of a shepheard's scrippe and slung(d) ?1438 Alex. ii 4495.
All on fer assailȝeit him seir And stainnes and slyngis hard thay cast c1420 Wynt. i 334.
Golyath, that Davy yhyng [W. ȝoung] Slewe wyth the stane cast of a slyng [W. slung, E. slyng] 1554 Knox III 141.
Without … weaponis (except my sling, staf, and stonis) 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics i 309.
fundae: funda (a sling) 1601 Elgin Rec. II 91.
It is fund daingerous the casting of stanes with the slinges for hurting of folkisattrib. 1456 Hay I 169/35.
He vencust … Goulyas, with … his slong stanis 1531 Bell. Boece II 178.
The Scottis schot at thir Danis, arowis and sloung [M. slong] stanisb. 1535 Stewart 52534.
King Edward … set him till persew … Beruik … With gun and ganȝe and with bowis bent, With sowis, slungis, and all instrument That neidfull war in ony seig to haif