Hurl

//hɝl// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. countable

    "He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres."

  2. 2
    a violent throw wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of vomiting. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl."

  4. 4
    Vomit. slang, uncountable

    "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."

  5. 5
    The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. countable
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  1. 6
    A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc. Scotland, Ulster, countable, slang

    "Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity."

  2. 7
    Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  3. 8
    A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring. countable, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To throw (something) with force. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    utter with force; utter vehemently wordnet
  3. 3
    To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. transitive

    "The gangs hurled abuse at each other."

  4. 4
    throw forcefully wordnet
  5. 5
    To participate in the sport of hurling. intransitive

    "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."

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  1. 6
    make a thrusting forward movement wordnet
  2. 7
    To vomit. intransitive, slang

    "I shake and bake the world Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl"

  3. 8
    To twist or turn. obsolete, transitive

    "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."

  4. 9
    To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl. obsolete
  5. 10
    To convey in a wheeled vehicle. Scotland, obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.

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