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A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to hand-throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead "sling-bullet". It is also known as the shepherd's...

Look up sling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sling may refer to: Sling, Anglesey, Wales Sling, Gloucestershire, England, a small village in the Forest...

rope occurs. This radius increases (and the bending stresses decrease) with the tensile force and decreases with the roller force. Wire rope slings (stranded...

The bottle sling (also called a jug sling, a Hackamore knot, or a Scoutcraft knot) is a knot which can be used to create a handle for a glass or ceramic...

A whoopie sling is an easily adjustable rope sling designed for tree pruning or tree removal. The whoopie sling works by wrapping the sling around the...

safety latch to prevent the disengagement of the lifting wire rope sling, chain or rope to which the load is attached. A hook may have one or more built-in...

Sling furniture is usually a suspended, free-swinging chair, bed, or hammock that is made of a framework connected to hanging straps or rope. When attached...

accurate: Slings and now more often 3-foot alpine draws or shorter quickdraws are used in-between pieces of protection and the rope to minimize rope drag Hitch...

being cooked Cow hitch – hitch knot used to attach a rope to an object Cow hitch and bowline (bale sling hitch or strap hitch) – uses a continuous loop of...

Whoopie sling, a type of rope sling used in tree pruning and hammock suspension Whoopie hook, a type of hook or fastener used in a whoopie sling Whoopee...

shortening rope slings, and for isolating damaged sections of rope. The earliest known presentation of the knot was in A.A. Burger's 1914 work Rope and Its...

another police officer, was sent to the roof, from which he abseiled on a rope sling to look through the apartment's windows. Ming roared at Duffy, who then...

called a "bale sling hitch". The barrel hitch is made by tying an overhand knot, leaving plenty of free rope at the working end. Where the rope crosses itself...

It is the best of all sling hitches and is often recommended for a slippery rope. But no hitch can slip when tied in a slings since it has no ends. All...

stronger harness and/or a gear sling. Multi-pitch climbing, which can be done in sport or traditional formats, requires added rope devices like ascenders and...

hitch is frequently used by hammock campers to attach adjustable rope slings ("whoopie slings") to the webbing straps that are used to attach hammocks to trees...

of redirect targets Sheer legs Sling (rigging) – Rope, webbing, wire or chain used to support a load for lifting Rope splicing – Semi-permanent joint...

Abseiling (/ˈæbseɪl/ AB-sayl or /ˈɑːpzaɪl/ AHP-zyle; from German abseilen 'to rope down'), also known as rappelling (/ˈræpɛl/ RAP-pell or /rəˈpɛl/ rə-PELL;...

any fall before the protection begins to hold the rope, but is needed to reduce rope drag or aid. sling A closed loop of webbing. sloper A hold where the...

caused by "lack of conformity" of the cargo sling's load rating with the weight of the cargo. The wire rope sling was rated at 8.5 tonnes but it was used...