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ng or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main. Pope.

See Whirlbat. [Obs.] Holland.

See Whirlbone.

One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

A whirlwind. [Obs.] Sandys.

Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.

Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

In a churlish manner.

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.

A hole; an aperture. [Obs.]

Same as Thurl, n., 2 (a).

An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

d to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.