Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

2. (v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

3. (v. t.) To twist or turn.

4. (v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly.

5. (v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

6. (v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

7. (n.) The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

8. (n.) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.

9. (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.