hurler has definitions from the fields of baseball,sport,softball,games
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[ noun ] (baseball or softball) the person who does the pitching

Synonyms

pitcher twirler

Examples

"our pitcher has a sore arm"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Then Dick_Hyde , submarine_ball hurler , entered the contest and only five batters needed to face him before there existed a 3 - to 3 deadlock .

Unfortunately , Brooks ' teammates were not in such festive mood as the Orioles expired before the seven hit pitching of three Kansas_City rookie hurlers .

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