"sling arms" (not in OED2) -- why not before 1824?

[Amy West]

On 4/19/14, 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:23:33 -0400
> From:    Dan Goncharoff<thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: "sling arms" (not in OED2) -- why not before 1824?
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> I am still focusing on swords. Here is a an 1831 reference to
> "sword-slings":
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=8bk8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA500&dq=%22sword+sling%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sltRU6KtLIaVyAT1-oKAAw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAg
>
>
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> DanG
The problem is that it's much later than the 1749 poem. I found similar
late uses of "sword sling".

---Amy West

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