hurley
Americannoun
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the game of hurling.
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the leather-covered ball used in hurling.
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the stick used in hurling, similar to a field hockey stick but with a wide, flat blade.
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Informal. a club or cudgel.
noun
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another word for hurling
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Also called: hurley stick. the stick used in playing hurling
Etymology
Origin of hurley
Example Sentences
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What happens in that pursuit is a fearless athleticism of stops and starts, feints and sprints, bangs and bruises, all with the wide-ended hurley stick used to balance, swing and block.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
They will cheer for neighbors, including 18-year-old Conor Whelan, who was on this very grass the night before, practicing and practicing his hurley moves, alone.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
A splintered hurley, a couple of calls for a trainer, a few shoulder bumps, and then several scrums that seem incidental to the ball.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2015
The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry insisted that they ought to have had dancing classes as well as a hurley team.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
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