hurling

English

Noun

hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)

1. The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
   • Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray

     The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently […]

2. An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
3. A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

Translations

Irish game

• Irish: iománaíocht f, iomáint f, iomáin f
• Manx: immanaght f
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• Old Irish: immáin m or f

Cornish game

• Cornish: hyrlîan
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Verb

hurling

1. present participle of hurl

Derived terms

• senior hurling