slung shot

Men are locked up or fined if found with daggers or slung-shot upon their persons, but revolvers go free.

A Mr. Jansen had been stunned by a blow from a slung-shot, and his person and premises rifled by Australian thieves.

One night I saw a man attacked by highwaymen and knocked down with a slung-shot, just across the street.

He could not say, however, which drew the slung-shot or which threw the grenade.