slungshot

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A maritime tool consisting of a weight (the "shot") affixed to the end of a long cord, used to cast line from one location to another and sometimes as an improvised weapon.
    — All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung[-]shot could not have brought her down better.

词形变化

slungshots plural

词源

From slung + shot.
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