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verb

Hurl v. t. (past & past part. hurled; pres. part. hurling)

To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. "And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main."

To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." (Obs.)

Hurl v. i.

To hurl one's self; to go quickly. (R.)

To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another). "God shall hurl at him and not spare."

To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

noun

Hurl n.

The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. (Obs.)

(Hat Manuf.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hurl" Quotes from Famous Books

... his intention was to inflict a severe check upon them with the magnificent little division under his command, and then fall back triumphantly across the Coa. Massena, however, was well aware of the fighting powers of the light division, and was preparing to hurl suddenly upon him a force more than ...

— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty

... swung a sun into destruction were at work! What chance had man, or the works of man against such? What mattered a tiny planet when those rays could hurl one mighty sun into another, to blaze up in an awful conflagration that would light up space for a million light years around with a ...

— Islands of Space • John W Campbell

... streams that we could not cross for want of boats; we traveled through mountain defiles, where the pathway was narrow and dangerous, winding over hill and dale and over craggy steeps, where one false step might hurl us down into the yawning chasm below. We suffered from storms and pelting rains, and at night when we halted to rest our weary limbs, we had only the light canvass of our tents to shelter us from ...

— Acadian Reminiscences - The True Story of Evangeline • Felix Voorhies

... been a huge, unwieldy egotistical brute who said, "Big men have ever big frames." He might have had Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott, Lincoln or Washington in mind; but, standing ready there to hurl the glib lie in his teeth, were Napoleon, Hamilton, St. Paul, Tamerlane, and the Rev. Dr. Jo. Belloc, President of the Western Theological College in Chicago. He was five feet high in his stockinged feet, thin and wiry, ...

— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

... queerly from his pale moon-face. He was dressed all in white, except for a battered, old, black hat, which he wore tipped over one eye. In one hand he held a stick. And it seemed to Jolly Robin that the queer man was just about to hurl it at something. ...

— The Tale of Jolly Robin • Arthur Scott Bailey

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