hand-sling
hand-sling, = Lat. falarica, Gloss.; title of work wrongly ascribed to Hero.
The corpus record
χειρο-βαλλίστρα
cheiroballistra · ἡ
hand-sling
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.