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What does "hurl" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.Etym: [Cf. Whirl.] To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." [Obs.] Fuller.
  2. 3.To hurl one's self; to go quickly. [R.]
  3. 4.To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another). God shall hurl at him and not spare. Job xxvii. 22 (Rev. Ver. ).
  4. 5.To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
  5. 6.The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. Congreve.
  6. 7.Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. [Obs.] Knolles.
  7. 8.(Hat Manuf.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

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