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Webster 1913 Edition


Hurling

Hurl′ing

,
Noun.
1.
The act of throwing with force.
2.
A kind of game at ball, formerly played.
Hurling
taketh its denomination from throwing the ball.
Carew.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hurling

HURL'ING

,
ppr.
Throwing with force; playing at hurling.

Definition 2024


hurling

hurling

English

Noun

hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)

  1. The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
    • Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
      The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently []
  2. An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  3. A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

Translations

Verb

hurling

  1. present participle of hurl