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Played by two teams of 15 players each
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hurling
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Word definitions for hurling in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verbal noun of hurl (q.v.); attested 1520s as a form of hockey played in Ireland; c.1600 as the name of a game like hand-ball that once was popular in Cornwall.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. rushing and whirling; "the hurling water" n. a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurling \Hurl"ing\, n. The act of throwing with force. A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. --Carew.
Usage examples of hurling.
Malink was hurling a string of native curses at Abo, who looked as if he would burst into tears any second.
Three backpacks exploded as the train pulled into the Atocha station, hurling rubble and steel and the unwitting in every direction.
But off in his beaked seagoing ships he lay, raging away at Atrides Agamemnon, king of armies, while his men sported along the surf, marking time, hurling the discus, throwing spears and testing bows.
After I had wasted my time in hurling at her bitter reproaches, the force of which did not strike her, and in proving to her that she was a stupid fool, she refuted all my arguments by the most complete silence.
For if it were attempted to evict the Innisturk people the evictors would be accused of hurling an entire population into the sea.
In the concourse outside, knots of factionists were already hurling missiles, brandishing improvised clubs, kicking, punching, and stabbing.
Hurling myself through the aperture I reached the garden, but a hundred feet from where the black was choking the life from my Dejah Thoris, and with a single great bound I was upon him.
Captain Foyn ran out of the sterncastle, sword waving, hurling curses at the thing that had taken one of his men.
The futchels creaked and squealed as the vehicle swung round another corner, tipping on to two wheels and hurling gobbets of mud into the osiers blurring past on both sides.
Adam the next morning coming from the garderobe, where he had been hurling the contents of his stomach for the past hour.
And the way the driver is hurling her about in the back is adding to her elation, as though she was at a fun fair on the Roller Ghoster, which used to come to Highbury Fields: Roll up, roll up, Roller Ghoster, fast ride, fast ride, down the hill, Roller Ghoster.
With that, Gizmo gathered rocks and started hurling them at the dragon.
He stopped only when he saw her on the point of hurling at him the chamber utensil which she had just seized.
Korvaasha and hurling him backward with the knockback effect of energy transfer.
His hurling motion terminated with a sweep that brought him face to face with Koy Shan and his henchmen.