hurl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.
Inflected forms:
form: hurls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hurls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To throw (something) with force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony
And bishops three times married, thy cathedrals
The Seats where Prayer and hospitality
Should dwel, shall be the taverns
Where Drunken bowles incessantly goe round
In leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,
The beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim us’d
To ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find
Possess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants,
And a Dishonest brood of ugly children.
I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
gloss: To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"
It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.
gloss: To participate in the sport of hurling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: I shake and bake the world
Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl
gloss: To twist or turn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished the thief to be lame.
gloss: To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
obsolete
transitive
gloss: A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
The Gods, with horror and amaze, look’d down,
Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th’ aethereal [var.: aerial] firmament!
I laid down this law with all the girls and expected to receive a hurl of abuse back.
gloss: The act of vomiting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
gloss: Vomit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.
gloss: The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Ulster
countable
slang
examples: Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.
gloss: Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
Derived words: hurl chunks
hurler
hurly-hacket
outhurl
thirl
unhurled
uphurl
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