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
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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
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
Then with a second throw he would cast his hurley so that it went a distance no shorter than the first throw.
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Dunn, Joseph
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
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
The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "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 Lincoln, Jeanie Gould
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