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To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

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  1. v. t. To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
  2. v. t. To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
  3. v. t. To twist or turn.
  4. v. i. To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
  5. v. i. To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
  6. v. i. To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
  7. n. The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
  8. n. Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
  9. n. A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
  10. n. a violent throw
  11. v. throw forcefully
  12. v. make a thrusting forward movement