hurling

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Shoe-hurling is an especially grave insult in the Arab and Muslim world and Zaidi had risked up to 15 years in jail on the charge of aggression against a foreign head of state.

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  1. noun An Irish game resembling lacrosse played with a broad-bladed, netless stick.

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  • Slide 3: History of Ice Hockey •Hockey like games were brought to Canada by European immigrants •The Irish sport of hurling, the Scottish sport of shinty and versions of field hockey played in England •Ice hockey was first recorded as being played in the early —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Police fired tear gas at rock-hurling protesters yesterday. —  News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Police fired tear gas at rock-hurling protesters yesterday on the eve of a NATO summit - the first real confrontation after hours of mostly small, scattered and peaceful rallies. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • In a sense, this vision of elite, brainy environmentalists on one side and a baying, insult-hurling crowd on the other speaks, however accidentally and however crudely, to an underlying truth: environmentalism remains a largely elitist project, beloved of politicians, priests and prudes keen to control people's behaviour and curb our excessive lifestyles, and it rubs many 'ordinary people' up the wrong way. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Do you prefer insult hurling or rational conversation? —  Think Progress
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  1. from Middle English hurlynge, hurlunge; verbal noun of hurl, v.
 

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