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Definition of Flingers
1. flinger [n] - See also: flinger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flingers
Literary usage of Flingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... -flingers, pettifoggers, and »publican plotters cannot well live without it.
Collier. This is л figurative expression, where the words are used in a ..."
2. Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1801)
"The ancient inhabitants of Minorca were faid to be the beft flingers in the world;
when they were children, every morning what they were to eat was ..."
3. The Roman History: From the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the by Oliver Goldsmith (1770)
"... which, with the multitude of archers and flingers, foon obliged ... while the
archers and flingers, who were thus abandoned, were cut to pieces. ..."
4. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by James Shergold Boone, John Henry Newman (1800)
"... the retreat of the flingers for the beginning of a rout, fled into the wood*.
Erlach prevented the fatal ..."
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