Library / English Dictionary

HURLING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hurling" is a kind of...):

field game (an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb hurl

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 Context examples: 

The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as he looked, they broke into a hoarse yell and dashed once more upon the two knights, hurling themselves madly upon their sword-points; clutching, scrambling, biting, tearing, careless of wounds if they could but drag the two soldiers to earth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here a squat and brawny god held sway, with much noise, hurling trunks and boxes about, dragging them in through the door and tossing them into the piles, or flinging them out of the door, smashing and crashing, to other gods who awaited them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)