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flinger

[ fling-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that flings.
  2. Also called slinger, thrower. a device, mounted on a rotating shaft, for throwing lubricant onto a bearing or for keeping grit out of a bearing by centrifugal force.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flinger1

First recorded in 1490–1500; fling + -er 1
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Example Sentences

But though he leaned far out he could not discry the flinger of the pebble.

One stoops one's head before a stone flung at one, but what of the flinger whom one is not conscious of having seen?

Well, what the deuce is he worth to you after that, either as a framer of fact or flinger of fiction?

But the swarthy flinger for the local club was not a bit behind him.

At other times he is the buccaneer, the flinger of foul oaths, and terrible damning curses.

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