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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.
Definition 2024
hurling
hurling
English
Noun
hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)
- 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 […]
- Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
- 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.
- A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
Translations
Irish game
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Cornish game
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Verb
hurling
- present participle of hurl