outsling
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[edit]outsling (third-person singular simple present outslings, present participle outslinging, simple past and past participle outslung)
- (transitive) To sling more effectively than; to surpass in slinging.
- 1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World, page 34:
- As it now is, the enemy outshoot and outsling us so far that the Cretan archers and our javelineers cannot reach them.
- (transitive, poetic, archaic) To hurl outward.
- 1876, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians, page 161:
- And thundering engine murderous balls outsling