| 释义 |
ˈslacky Sc. rare.
Also slackie.
[Of obscure origin.]
A form of sling.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxv, The other shepherds and shepherdesses came with their slings and slackies following them. Ibid. xxxii, He..found..that Marquet's head was broken with a slackie or short cudgel. 1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v., The slackie, it is believed, is that kind of sling, which is made of an elastic rod, or piece of wood, split at one end, for receiving the stone. |