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Word Meanings - HURLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who hurls, or plays at hurling.

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  • HURL
    To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." Fuller. (more info) 1. To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main.
  • HURLBONE
    A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse. Crabb. (more info) 1. See Whirlbone.
  • HURLING
    1. The act of throwing with force. 2. A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.
  • HURLY
    Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.
  • HURLWIND
    A whirlwind. Sandys.
  • HURLY-BURLY
    Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
  • HURLER
    One who hurls, or plays at hurling.
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • HURLBAT
    See HOLLAND
  • CHURL
    husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
  • CHURLISHLY
    In a churlish manner.
  • CHURLISHNESS
    Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
  • THURLING
    See
  • THURL
    1. A hole; an aperture. A short communication between adits in a mine. A long adit in a coalpit.
  • CHURLY
    Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.
  • CHURLISH
    1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish

 

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