hurtling

English

Verb

hurtling

1. present participle and gerund of hurtle

Noun

hurtling (plural hurtlings)

1. The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
   • 1873, Richard Miller Devens, The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion:

     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 […]

   • c. 1920, Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm:

     Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]

Anagrams

• thurling