Sling vs Parbuckle - What's the difference?
sling | parbuckle |
To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
To throw with a sling.
* Bible, Judges xx. 16
(nautical) To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
(weapon) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Francis Grose, title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=43
, passage=The Sling is also a weapon of great antiquity, formerly in high estimation among the ancients.}}
A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby.
A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
(nautical) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1600, author=William Shakespeare, title=Hamlet'', Act III, Scene I, line 55
, passage=To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them.}}
(climbing) A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
As verbs the difference between sling and parbuckle
is that sling is to throw with a circular or arcing motion while parbuckle is to hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.As nouns the difference between sling and parbuckle
is that sling is (weapon) an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other while parbuckle is a kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask the middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.sling
English
Verb
- (Addison)
- Everyone could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss.
Derived terms
* underslingNoun
(en noun)- At one sling / Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son.
- gin sling
- a Singapore sling
