HURTER

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke.

2.
n.

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.
n.

Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.

4.
n.

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

5.
n.

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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