hurley
noun
the game of hurling.
hurleys
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pluralof hurley.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
