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Hurl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of throwing with violence.

2. Tumult; riot; commotion.

Hurl [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone.

2. And hurl them headlong to their fleet and main.

3. To utter with vehemence; as, to hurl out vows. [Not in use.]

4. To play at a kind of game.

Hurl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

2. Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.

3. A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Hurl [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To hurl one's self; to go quickly.

2. To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

3. To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

Hurl [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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. To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

3. To twist or turn.

Hurlbat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A whirl-bat; an old kind of weapon.

Hurlbat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Whirlbat.

Hurlbone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a horse, a bone near the middle of the buttock.

Hurlbone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Whirlbone.

2. A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse.

Hurled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Thrown with violence.

Hurled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hurl

Hurler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who hurls, or who plays at hurling.

Hurler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

Hurling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Throwing with force; playing at hurling

Hurling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of throwing with force.

2. A kind of game at ball, formerly played.

Hurling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hurlwind [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A whirlwind, which see.

Hurlwind [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A whirlwind.

Hurly [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HURL'Y

Hurly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tumult; bustle; confusion.

Hurly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Noise; confusion; uproar.

Hurly-burly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tumult; bustle; confusion.

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3 KJV and 14 BSB verses contain “Hurl”

Numbers 35:20

But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

1 Samuel 18:11

And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

1 Samuel 20:33

And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

2 Samuel 22:15

And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

1 Chronicles 12:2

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin.

they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):

Nehemiah 9:11

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 27:22

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

Psalms 18:14

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Psalms 79:12

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Jeremiah 22:26

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

Ezekiel 32:4

Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

Jonah 1:4

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

Revelation 8:5

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.