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.
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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.
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.”
'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.
An amateur footballer has gone on trial accused of hurling racist abuse at an opposition player during a match.
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."
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.