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sling

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1323, OED Evaluation: N/A

A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.

ExampleMeaning
They had to some- or concentrate and that was- you-know started- that was no work but it was very, very little. They'd be there on the seventh concession one morning early before we got up, and there be just slings and (inc) and- and another thing that they- there was the mill sheds where they used to tie their horses and everybody in the village had a cow at that time.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
Back then they didn't have bailers and bail up hay, all the hay was brought in loose. And it was brought in- in to the barn with a great big buck-rack on the back of a truck and put on a set of slings in the barn and my job was to tie the slings and then he would pull it up with the truck and I would drop the hay in the mow, and then I'd have to pull the slings back down and set them again, and climb into the mow, and then I'd have to pull the slings back down and set them again, and climb into the mow and level the hay off.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
end. And the old lumber that was any good went on the west end where you couldn't see it. But the hay mow, or a grain mow like what we- when we were doing stuff and he used to bring ah, the- the grain in with sheaves. And there was slings. Interviewer: Slings? Speaker: And you put a- yeah, you put a sling- the sling was a two-part thing. And it went together with a- with a- a bit in the middle. And you hooked it over the end-gates on the wagon. One there and one here. And you built a row of sheaves. The same as you did with the hay, loose hay.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
Speaker: you bound the centre in, but you go this way with one, that way with the other one, and that way with the centre. And you went all the way back like that. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And then you started the same thing. And you- Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: Usually put two rows on a sling. And then you put another sling together. And when you got to the barn, there was ah- when you go ahead to pull it off, it was a little different but the same idea as the hay. But it was a hayfork that you just chucked into the hay
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
But it was a hayfork that you just chucked into the hay, but this thing here had to start all on a sling, so you took this end and you hooked a rope on there and on here. And when the thing started to lift, it made a round like that, and all the sheaves were in it. And it'd go up and it'd trip.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah now what you had you- you- you laid slings down, you put a layer of hay on that. Interviewer: What's a sling? Speaker: A sling is just a- like a rope net. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And then you hook onto it and the horses out the far- the teams out the far end of the barn, they pull it up with a sling
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
Speaker: A sling is just a- like a rope net. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And then you hook onto it and the horses out the far- the teams out the far end of the barn, they pull it up with a sling.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
of the summer just for ah farm experience, I guess. Interviewer: Square bails or- Speaker: No just loose hay. Interviewer: Stoots. Speaker: Loose. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: You- you just used um a hay fork and load it onto the wagon and hauled it in and- and ah piled it up into the- they had a sling that would bring it up and then go over it and then drop it. Interviewer: Into the- into the mow. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Did you used to salt the hay after you put it in? Speaker: I don't remember that. No. Interviewer: Some- some places I used to work, they used to put salt in
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
And then you- well, Sandy used to drive it a lot. They would back it into the rows of hay instead of doing it all by hand, that was- and then they would bring it in and put it in the barn and take it up with, um- slings. And then it would go across the big thing in the top of the barn, I forget what that was called, and drop down into the haymow.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Hay fork ah, ah, come down from the roof of the barn on- then put- now was it slings they had mostly?Yeah, the slings they had on the wagon I-guess before you put the hay on wasn't it? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then the hay went on top of that and then they hooked ah, slings to the hay for- or-- the hay- so I just had to watch.
A device for securing or grasping bulky or heavy articles while being hoisted or lowered, usually a belt, rope, or chain formed into a loop and fitted with hooks and tackle; a loop of this kind by which heavy objects are lifted, carried, or suspended.