outsling
English
Etymology
out- + sling
Verb
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.
- 1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World (page 34)
- (transitive, poetic, archaic) To hurl outward.
- 1876, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians (page 161)
- And thundering engine murderous balls outsling
- 1876, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians (page 161)