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hurtling en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
    • He clasped his hands over the breast of the brave young Irish volunteer, who had come so willingly with him from the same State, who had stood so gallantly by his side in the deadly hurtlings of battle […] 1873, Richard Miller Devens, The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion:
    • Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […] c. 1920, Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm:

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hurtling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of hurtle
    form of hurtle