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Pelting vs Hurling - What's the difference?

pelting | hurling |

As verbs the difference between pelting and hurling

is that pelting is while hurling is .

As nouns the difference between pelting and hurling

is that pelting is the act by which somebody or something is pelted while hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

As an adjective pelting

is (obsolete) mean; paltry.

pelting

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) mean; paltry
    • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
  • * 1830 , Baptist Missionary Magazine (volume 10, page 88)
    • the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.
    (Webster 1913)

    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.

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