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Hurler   Listen
noun
Hurler  n.  One who hurls, or plays at hurling.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hurler" Quotes from Famous Books



... An' for all that he wasn't an ugly young bye, For the divil himself couldn't blaze with his eye, So droll an' so wicked, so dark and so bright, Like a fire-flash that crosses the depth of the night! An' he was the best mower that ever has been, An' the illigantest hurler that ever was seen, An' his dancin' was sich that the men used to stare, An' the women turn crazy, he done it so quare; An' by gorra, the whole world gev it into him there. An' it's he was the boy that was hard to be caught, An' it's often he run, an' it's often he fought, An' it's many ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

... starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow. Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his rifle from the wall. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons. But these two ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... English, Norse, or whatever we may please to call them, are an envious, depreciatory set of people, who not only give their poor comrades contemptuous surnames, but their great people also. They didn't call you the matchless Hurler, because, by doing so, they would have paid you a compliment, but Hull over the Head Jack, as much as to say that after all you were a scrub: so, in ancient time, instead of calling Regner the great conqueror, the Nation Tamer, they surnamed him Lodbrog, ...
— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow



Words linked to "Hurler" :   softball game, reliever, hurl, left hander, fireman, lefthander, starting pitcher, right-handed pitcher, left-handed pitcher, baseball game, ballplayer, softball, Hurler's syndrome, left-hander, thrower, relief pitcher



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