hurley

American  

[hur-lee] / ˈhɜr li /

Or hurly

noun

British.

plural

hurleys, hurlies

1. the game of hurling.

2. the leather-covered ball used in hurling.

3. the stick used in hurling, similar to a field hockey stick but with a wide, flat blade.

4. Informal. a club or cudgel.

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hurley British  

/ ˈhɜːlɪ /

noun

1. another word for hurling

2. Also called: hurley stick.  the stick used in playing hurling

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Etymology

Origin of hurley

1815–25; hurl + -ey, as in hockey

Example Sentences

He could fling the ball long distances, then throw his hurley to smack it in midair, driving the ball even further.

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

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

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

The wa' gaed a hurley, and scatter'd them a', The piper, the fiddler, auld Kitty, and a'; The kye fell a routin', the cocks they did craw, In Kitty Reid's house on the green, Jo!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles