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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HURTER

n.One who hurts or does harm.

 

HURTERS

n.Pieces of wood at the lower end of a platform, to prevent the wheels of gun-carriages from injuring the parapet.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HURTER

HURTER Hurt "er, n.

 

1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts... all men feel. Locke.

 

2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson.

 

3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.

 

Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.

 

HURTER

HURTER Hurt "er, n.

 

Defn: One who hurts or does harm. I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl.

 

HURTER

Hurt "er, n. Etym: [F. heurtoir, lit. , a striker. See Hurt, v. t.]

 

Defn: A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp. : (Mil. ) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

 

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