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Hurling vs Purling - What's the difference?

hurling | purling |

As nouns the difference between hurling and purling

is that hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown while purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

As verbs the difference between hurling and purling

is that hurling is while purling is .

As an adjective purling is

that purls; rippling, eddying.

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)

    • purling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That purls; rippling, eddying.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.6:
  • *:They have sometimes caused an high steepy mountaine to arise in the midst of the sayd Amphitheaters, all over-spred with fruitfull and flourishing trees of all sortes, on the top whereof gushed out streames of water as from out the source of a purling spring.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound
    • the purlings of the stream