Hurter

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hurter \Hurt"er\, n.
     1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the
        like.
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              The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel.


                                                    --Locke.
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     2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a
        stain; as of sin.
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              But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that
              Honor feels.                          --Tennyson.
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     3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
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              Thou dost me yet but little hurt.     --Shak.
  
     Syn: Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment;
          mischief; bane; disadvantage.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hurter \Hurt"er\, n.
     One who hurts or does harm.
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           I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.   --Beau. & Fl.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hurter \Hurt"er\, n. [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See {Hurt},
     v. t.]
     A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece
     of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent
     the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.
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