hurley
Americannoun
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hurleys,
plural
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hurlies
plural
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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
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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
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
Blurs of men continue their hurley battle for a ball skittering across a Kinvara field.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015
Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley.
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 St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
I emerged into the sunshine to see a group of boys goofing around on the lush castle lawns, using their hurleys to bat around a ball much the way Americans might toss a Frisbee together.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2018
On the Connemara side, players had sat with hurleys in hand as their wiry manager, a school psychologist named Rory O Bearra, encouraged in the language of Irish:
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015
Some 800 of them, scowling young men from the hills of Leitrim and neighboring counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the method in which hurleys are used suggests instead that golf is a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Are you deserting me, Peter?" put in Kitty playfully; "the other hurlies are busy with the De Lancey party; we must have two or three at least."
From An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln
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