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Definition of Slingshot

1. Noun. A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones.

Definition of Slingshot

1. Noun. A Y-shaped stick with an elastic band between the arms used for shooting small projectiles. ¹

2. Verb. To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slingshot

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slingshot

Literary usage of Slingshot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"Similarly, the slingshot, consisting of a diamond-shaped piece of leather to hold the stone, and two cords, one of which is released in swinging it, ..."

2. Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District by Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2001)
"According to a witness: "The soldiers ran after those who stayed [behind] and they were using live bullets. Samir had a slingshot, he used the slingshot to ..."

3. Conservation Laws by Benjamin Crowell (2003)
"The slingshot effect example 12 lt is a counterintuitive fact that a spacecraft can pick up speed by swinging around a planet, if arrives in the opposite ..."

4. Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its Phases by Marshall Henry Cushing (1892)
"I had a double-barreled gun, a revolver and a slingshot nearby, which 1 keep for the ... I didn't want to kill the fellow, so I used the slingshot upon him. ..."

5. The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology by Harry Ignatius Marshall (1922)
"Later, when the grain is in the milk, birds are often rapacious, and I have seen Karens scaring them off their fields with a kind of slingshot. ..."

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