different between hurtling vs hurdling

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hurtling

hurtling (plural hurtlings)

The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
- 1873, Richard Miller Devens, The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion
  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 […]
- c. 1920, Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm
  Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]

hurdling (countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
- 1993, Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)
  It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings, covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.

hurdling

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