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