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Hurl   /hərl/   Listen
verb
Hurl  v. t.  (past & past part. hurled; pres. part. hurling)  
1.
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."
2.
To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
3.
To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." (Obs.)


Hurl  v. i.  
1.
To hurl one's self; to go quickly. (R.)
2.
To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another). "God shall hurl at him and not spare."
3.
To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.


noun
Hurl  n.  
1.
The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
2.
Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. (Obs.)
3.
(Hat Manuf.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.





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"Hurl" Quotes from Famous Books



... particular face. He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra. At abrupt intervals in the outrageous performance he would hurl himself in full costume at the piano and bang out some popular ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... take," said he, "a ball of iron sixty men can scarce lift, and hurl it so mightily against the Palace wall that it shall beat ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... but the subject of this discussion is not how to defend the country, but what punishment they shall inflict upon Ah Kurroo. There is a difference of opinion. Some hold that the established penalty for his offence is to break his wings and hurl him helpless from the top of the tallest elm. Some, more merciful, are for banishment, that he be outlawed, and compelled to build his nest and roost on an isolated tree, exposed to all the insults of the crows. The older members of the council, great sticklers for tradition, maintain that the ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies
... I were you I'd get some stones down by the brook and go straight back to the grove and hurl them ...
— The Tale of Major Monkey • Arthur Scott Bailey
... Reality—cannot by any stretch of the imagination be conceived as constituting a Happy Ending to a great and personal adventure. That I write this chapter at all is due, purely and simply, to the, I daresay, unjustified hope on my part that—by recording certain events—it may hurl a little additional light into ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings


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