hurling

English

Noun

hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)

1. The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
   • 1864 January 30, [authorship claimed by Edmund Yates], “Pincher Astray”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume X, number 249, London: Chapman and Hall, page 539, column 2:

     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;

     Edmund Yates (1884) “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111: “In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.”

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.

Derived terms

• Cornish hurling

Translations

Irish game

• Hungarian: hurling (hu)
• Irish: iománaíocht f, iomáint f, iomáin f
• Manx: immanaght f
• Old Irish: immáin m or f

Cornish game

• Cornish: hyrlîan

Verb

hurling

1. present participle and gerund of hurl

Derived terms

• senior hurling