sling
sling
subs.
P. and V. σφενδόνη, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. σφενδόνη, ἡ.
sling
v. trans.
See hang, cast.Absol., use the sling: P. and V. σφενδονᾶν.
v. trans.
See hang, cast.Absol., use the sling: P. and V. σφενδονᾶν.
SLING
s. An instrument for throwing stones funda. To put anything into a sling in fundam indere aliquid: to throw anything with a sling funda librare or excutere aliquid; funda mittere.
A throw a fling; [Vid: FLING].
(From its resemblance) = a hanging bandage vinculum: mitella (as technical term in chirurgery.). To use a sling for one’s arm or to have one’s arm in a sling brachium mitella excipere; also brachium suspendere ex cervice (if it hangs down from the neck): the broader part of the sling is intended for the arm and its ends are tied to the neck mitella latitudine ipsi brachio perangustis capitibus collo injicitur.
s. An instrument for throwing stones funda. To put anything into a sling in fundam indere aliquid: to throw anything with a sling funda librare or excutere aliquid; funda mittere.
A throw a fling; [Vid: FLING].
(From its resemblance) = a hanging bandage vinculum: mitella (as technical term in chirurgery.). To use a sling for one’s arm or to have one’s arm in a sling brachium mitella excipere; also brachium suspendere ex cervice (if it hangs down from the neck): the broader part of the sling is intended for the arm and its ends are tied to the neck mitella latitudine ipsi brachio perangustis capitibus collo injicitur.
v. To throw with a sling funda mittere or librare or excutere.
To hurl jaculari (e.g. a lance etc.): mittere: emittere (to throw with the hand etc. in general): jactare (to throw repeatedly; e.g. lances; hence also of “throwing out one’s arms ” brachia). ☞ Torquere or contorquere for jaculari only poetical [Vid: To FLING].
To hang as in a sling; Vid: To HANG.
To hurl jaculari (e.g. a lance etc.): mittere: emittere (to throw with the hand etc. in general): jactare (to throw repeatedly; e.g. lances; hence also of “throwing out one’s arms ” brachia). ☞ Torquere or contorquere for jaculari only poetical [Vid: To FLING].
To hang as in a sling; Vid: To HANG.
sling (subs.):
I. For throwing: funda: Caes.: Liv.
II. A kind of bandage for the arm: mĭtella: Cels. 8, 10, 3.
I. For throwing: funda: Caes.: Liv.
II. A kind of bandage for the arm: mĭtella: Cels. 8, 10, 3.
sling (v.): Phr.: mittere [aliquid] funda (to s. anything away), Cic. in Quint. 8, 6, 73: to s. out to the open sea, funda apertum mare incessere [petere], Liv. 38, 29: cf. ib. paulo infr., velut nervo missa [glans] excutiatur (the bullet is slung out with the force of a bow-sling): more poet., verbera fundae torquere, Virg. Aen. 1, 309: cf. also Aen. 9, 586, fundam ... ter adducta circum caput egit habena. See also TO AIM AT . (Fundĭto, 1: Pl. Poen. 2, 36: best avoided.)
Sling
See funda.