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Trowing vs Hurling - What's the difference?

trowing | hurling |

As verbs the difference between trowing and hurling

is that trowing is while hurling is .

As a noun hurling is

the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

trowing

English

Verb

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    • 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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