Hurling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An Irish game resembling lacrosse played with a broad-bladed, netless stick.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • n. A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
  • v. Present participle of hurl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of throwing with force.
  • n. A kind of game at ball, formerly played.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game in which opposite parties strive to hurl or force a ball through their opponents' goal, or to place it at one of two points in a district of country.
  • n. Strife.
  • n. The young of the common perch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    field game   
    Verb Stem
    hurl   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sterling    Stirling    burling    curling    gerling    herling    pearling    sperling    spurling    sterling