slingshotted

1 : a forked stick with an elastic band attached for shooting small stones. 2a : a maneuver in auto racing in which a drafting car accelerates past the car in front by taking advantage of reserve power.

Sling sentence example. My shoulder is hurting and I’d like to put the sling on for a while. He flew out of here like a rock off a kid’s sling shot. The doctor says I can take it out of the sling when I’m resting.

verbslingshots, slingshotting, slingshot, slingshotted Forcefully accelerate through the effect of gravity.

catapult

• arbalest.
• ballista.
• heaver.
• hurler.
• pitcher.
• propeller.
• shooter.
• sling.

: an ancient military engine often in the form of a crossbow for hurling large missiles.

Onager, in weaponry, ancient Roman torsion-powered weapon, similar to a catapult. It consisted of a single vertical beam thrust through a thick horizontal skein of twisted cords. The name onager, meaning “wild ass,” derived from the tendency of its rear end to kick up when it was discharged.

Ballista, ancient missile launcher designed to hurl javelins or heavy balls. Ballistas were powered by torsion derived from two thick skeins of twisted cords through which were thrust two separate arms joined at their ends by the cord that propelled the missile.

: a cover of overlapping shields or a shed wheeled up to a wall used by the ancient Romans to protect an attacking force.

Testudo, the Latin variant of the Greek chelys harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell.

: an anatomical part suggesting a helmet.

: an officer commanding a Roman century.

A centurion is a kind of soldier in the Roman army responsible for the command of a century, or one hundred, men. Centurion lives on in common language as the typical Roman soldier––countless generations of fifth graders have been asked to sketch their costumes.

A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100 years, the term is invariably associated with longevity.

Centurion and centenarian are among several English words derived from the Latin word for one hundred: centum. In the ancient Roman army, a centurion was the officer in charge of a century, a unit originally comprised of 100 men.

“Centenarian” isn’t the oldest one; it only dates from the late 1700s. Far older is “centurion” (an ancient Roman military officer), which has been around since the 13th century. A younger “centum” offspring is “centisecond,” a rare term for 1/100 of a second that dates from the 1950s.

The centurion was the commander of a centuria, which was the smallest unit of a Roman legion. A legion was nominally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria.

According to Roman tradition, the existence of centurion rank went right back to the first armies of Rome in the mid-8th century BCE which, led by the legendary Romulus, had 3,000 men and 30 centurions, each commanding a 100-man infantry group known as a manipulus, which also had its own standard or signa.

Centuria

/ˈliːdʒ. ən.ri/ a soldier in an ancient Roman legion (= a large group of soldiers who form a part of an army): The legionaries were armed with swords.

adjective. of, relating to, or belonging to a legion. constituting a legion or legions.

(or carabinier), cavalier, cavalryman, cuirassier, dragoon.

legionaries

Legio IX Hispana

Roman Leaders: The 10 Greatest Generals behind the Empire

• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63-12 BCE)
• Marcus Antonius (83-30 BCE)
• Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106-48 BCE)
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BCE)
• Gaius Marius (157-86 BCE)
• Scipio Africanus (236-183 BCE)

Legion

This may help; documented Imperial regulations tell us that the minimum height for a soldier was about 165 cm or 5’5″. Most scholars agree that the height of a soldier would range from about 165cm to about 175cm, making the average height at around 170 cm or 5’7″. The roman empire was “global” already.

In one of the most decisive battles in history, a large Roman army under Valens, the Roman emperor of the East, is defeated by the Visigoths at the Battle of Adrianople in present-day Turkey. Two-thirds of the Roman army, including Emperor Valens himself, were overrun and slaughtered by the mounted barbarians.