Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Irish game resembling lacrosse played with a broad-bladed, netless stick.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A game in which opposite parties strive to hurl or force a ball through their opponents' goal, or to place it at one of two points in a district of country. As described by Carew in Cornwall in 1602, the former was called hurling to goal, and the latter (in which the people of the whole district took sides) hurling to the country. As played at the present time in Ireland, the game is the same as hockey.
- n. Strife.
- n. The young of the common perch.
Wiktionary
- n. An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
- n. A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
- v. present participle of hurl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of throwing with force.
- n. A kind of game at ball, formerly played.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each
Examples
“Americans know no shame (thank you Oprah) in hurling their stuff on us.”
“The bully is usually safe in hurling a race insult against the Jewish boy.”
“You’re entitled to your opinions and beliefs, but your hypocrisy in hurling playground insults and racial epithets at Ford just because he’s not sprung from your mold for African-American politicians is revolting.”
“Speaking of soccer, I like to think I was among the first, maybe the first, to call hurling "The Beautiful Game.”
“I could not call hurling the world's greatest game off one match though folks were calling it porribly that best match ever by possibly the sport's greatest-ever team, but it sure looked good from where I sat: speed, grace, precision.”
“I distinctly recall hurling a bit of abuse at arabs in an earlier post (in fact in a couple).”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“I agree with you that name hurling is infantile and I shall try to refrain from it.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Motorola -- the U.S. wireless-equipment giant that conceived the idea of hurling a phone system into space, and which owns 18 percent of Iridium -- has raised the possibility of liquidating the company.”
“About a month after their departure, Ms. Costa says, Mr. Santos called hurling threats.”
“I wasn't thrilled about the notion of hurling my sword into the shadows of the foliage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hurling’.
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Brant looked thoughtful, then said: 'Bit of a sticky wicket what?'
'You know cricket?'
'That's it, Guv - only the one expression. I have to ration it.'
'Well, you're about to get an education. I shall personally ensure you get a crash course. Don't the Irish play?'
Brant tried to look deprived. It made him look satanic.
'Just hurling I'm afraid.'
'What's that then?'
'A cross between hockey and murder.'"
- Ken Bruen, 'A White Arrest'. Aug 29, 2009
sionnach Where, by hurley, bilby means camán.
As in Camán Eileen. Though, of course, women's hurling is called camogie, because they play with a diminutive version of the camán, known as a camóg.
Dec 2, 2008
bilby Yes, they might as well have called it Whacking. Though mighty satisfying to pick up a sliotar and belt the besionnach out of it with your hurley. Dec 2, 2008
whichbe This is an odd name for a sport. Dec 2, 2008