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hurling

Speech parts

1. hurling - Noun

2. hurling - Verb

Meaning

of Hurl

The act of throwing with force.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A 22-year-old woman was arrested by Kannur city police on charges of killing her infant son by hurling him against a bunch of granite boulders near the sea. Source: Internet

According to police, a woman in the home heard a window break and saw Wambua “hurling himself through that broken window where he landed on to the floor.” Source: Internet

'Beating the bounds' and 'hurling' In 1865–66 William Robert Hicks was mayor of Bodmin, when he revived the custom of Beating the bounds of the town. Source: Internet

An amateur footballer has gone on trial accused of hurling racist abuse at an opposition player during a match. Source: Internet

Around the 16, 17, 18 season, he just seemed a man who was free of all that burden, he knew he could trust his team-mates and play his game and I suppose he's playing his best hurling in the last few years." Source: Internet

Although Limerick CBS is more noted for hurling success, it won the Senior Cup on four occasions in the 1920s and 30s and the Junior Cup in 1932. Source: Internet

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