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Hurling vs Hurtling - What's the difference?

hurling | hurtling |

As nouns the difference between hurling and hurtling

is that hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown while hurtling is the act of something being hurtled or thrown.

As verbs the difference between hurling and hurtling

is that hurling is present participle of lang=en while hurtling is present participle of lang=en.

hurling

English

Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • hurtling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
  • * Richard Miller Devens
    • 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
  • * Thomas Hardy
    • Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray;