hurling

plural hurlings

1. countableuncountableThe act by which something is hurled or thrown.

   In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.

   Edmund Yates (1884), “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111

2. countableuncountableAn Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
3. countableuncountableA Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hurl