hurtling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hurtle

noun

1. The act of something being hurtled or thrown.

   “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 […]”

   “Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]”