Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A stick used in the game of hurling.
- n. Another term for hurling.
Etymologies
- From hurl. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We know jack visiting hurley is in the future but before jack’s beard.”
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“His ease with the hurley was the first thing she noticed, along with his physical beauty, the pleasing proportions of his frame.”
“Hurling gear consists of a helmet, a wooden stick made of ash called a hurley, and a ball called a sliotar.”
“Andrew Aiello just miles and hurley which is a bit odd indeed.”
“Nevertheless, we borrowed a little "hurley," or handcart, from the baker's girl opposite, who certainly bore no malice.”
“We are advised not to play since the sticks they use "hurley" are held above their heads and they use them to stop people from catching the ball in the air, thus broken fingers and hands are VERY easy to occure.”
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“Even Donnacha had managed to get on the bus and he had never held a hurley in his life.”
“So what else got covered -- there was the pint, the hurley and... oh yes...”
The Huffington Post: John Lee: Obama in Ireland Gets Pint's Worth of Coverage in U.S.
“With the hurley, Obama has taken the lead in the arms race with John Boehner and his super-sized gavel.”
The Huffington Post: John Lee: Obama in Ireland Gets Pint's Worth of Coverage in U.S.
“Always appreciate a shout-out to Ms. Lion ... seth hurley”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hurley’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hurley.
chained_bear The Irish game of ‘hurling’; hockey.
I sat for a while by the gap in the wall
Found a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball
--"The Broad Majestic Shannon," the Pogues, c. 1988 Shane Macgowan Feb 7, 2007