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Webster 1913 Edition


Hurter

Hurt′er

,
Noun.
1.
A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.
The pains of sickness and
hurts
. . . all men feel.
Locke.
2.
An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the
hurt
that Honor feels.
Tennyson.
3.
Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
Syn. – Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.

Hurt′er

,
Noun.
One who hurts or does harm.
I shall not be a
hurter
, if no helper.
Beau. & Fl.

Hurt′er

,
Noun.
[F.
heurtoir
, lit., a striker. See
Hurt
,
Verb.
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.
Hurt′ful-ly
,
adv.
Hurt′ful-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hurter

HURT'ER

,
Noun.
One who hurts or does harm.

Definition 2024


hurter

hurter

English

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

  1. One who hurts or does harm.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
  2. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage
    • 2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60:
      For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice

Old French

Etymology

Frankish *hurton.

Verb

hurter

  1. to crash into; to clatter into

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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