HURLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurling mean? 

• HURLING (noun)
  The noun HURLING has 1 sense:

1. a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each

  Familiarity information: HURLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURLING (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)

 Context examples 

He obeyed, but with a rush, hurling himself upon the stranger who was dragging him away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“This is key enough for me!” quoth Hordle John, picking up the huge stone, and hurling it against the door with all the strength of his enormous body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“See that you keep yourself out of my grip,” he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room.

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

It was Buck, a live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again and shoot skyward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hurling their burdens in one vast heap within the portal, they threw burning torches upon the top of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A tangled mass of women, with drawn, white faces and open mouths, is shrieking like a chorus of lost souls; and the red-faced man, his face now purplish with wrath, and with arms extended overhead as in the act of hurling thunderbolts, is shouting, Shut up!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In fact, so inconceivably rapid were his movements, and so closely were the Indians tangled together, that they shot one another with the arrows; and one young hunter, hurling a spear at Buck in mid air, drove it through the chest of another hunter with such force that the point broke through the skin of the back and stood out beyond.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

White Fang, in the very nature of him, could never know anything about gods; at the best he could know only things that were beyond knowing—but the wonder and awe that he had of these man-animals in ways resembled what would be the wonder and awe of man at sight of some celestial creature, on a mountain top, hurling thunderbolts from either hand at an astonished world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)