outsling

present singular third person outslings · participle present outslinging · participle past outslung · past outslung

1. transitiveTo sling more effectively than; to surpass in slinging.

   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

2. archaicpoetictransitiveTo hurl outward.

   And thundering engine murderous balls outsling

   1876, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians, page 161