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/hˈərlɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Hurling n.

The act of throwing with force.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. "Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball."

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Etymology of 'Hurling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hurling" Quotes from Famous Books

... back against the desk, although I do not think I touched him, and his hand sought an open drawer. I knew him instantly for a coward, and gripped his wrist, hurling him from me half across ...

— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish

... I were alone in the gateway, and the snarling Mercians leaped at us. The last Welshman had fallen, hurling his broken sword at a man who smote at me, and ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

... a singularly magnanimous speech on Woodhouse's part, for he had been hurling sledgehammer blows without rest at the structure Priestley thought he had reared about phlogiston and which, he believed, most unassailable, so when in 1799 (July) Priestley began his reply to his "Antiphlogistian opponents" he took ...

— Priestley in America - 1794-1804 • Edgar F. Smith

... with the sun, shrieking along the exposed ridges and rippling the valleys of lodgepole pine, hurling its force against the spruce slopes. For another day Breed heard only the howl of the gale, the snow sliding from the swaying branches and the sudden crash of falling trees,—not a sound of life. The fury ...

— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts

... called it—and vanity prompted the inference, that this was the faculty that sprang the metaphor. His theory was now clear and eloquent before him. He was realizing for the first time in his life (with a sudden joy in the discovery) the effect of whisky to unloose the brain; sentences went hurling through his brain with a fluency that thrilled. If he had the ear of the company, now he had the drink to hearten him, he would show Wilson and the rest that he wasn't such a blasted fool! In a room by himself he would have spouted to ...

— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

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