slinga
“slinga” is a Swedish word. Its 8 meanings in English:
noun
- a bend or winding
- something with twists and turns (bends or windings), like a trail
- a hearing loop (usually as hörslinga)
- a series of lights, like a lightstrip or festoon (usually as ljusslinga)
- an (often dyed) strand of hair
- a (part of a) melody (often as musikslinga or melodislinga)
- a loop
- a melted glass piece, which twists around or on a glass product under the production, usually creating a spiral around the product, which later can be covered by another layer of glass.
Etymology
From Old Norse slyngva, from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną (“to twist”).
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