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.

Origin of flinger

1
First recorded in 1490–1500; fling + -er1

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How to use flinger in a sentence

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

    The Mesmerist's Victim | Alexandre Dumas
  • One stoops one's head before a stone flung at one, but what of the flinger whom one is not conscious of having seen?

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

    On the Heels of De Wet | The Intelligence Officer
  • 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.

    At Suvla Bay | John Hargrave