slackyn.
Scottish. rare.
A form of sling.
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxv. 117 The other shepherds and shepherdesses..came with their slings and slackies following them.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxii. 144 He..found..that Marquet's head was broken with a slackie or short cudgel.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) 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.
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