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- noun A stick used in the game of
hurling . - noun Another term for hurling.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We know jack visiting hurley is in the future but before jack’s beard.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts 2008
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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.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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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.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Hurling gear consists of a helmet, a wooden stick made of ash called a hurley, and a ball called a sliotar.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Hurling gear consists of a helmet, a wooden stick made of ash called a hurley, and a ball called a sliotar.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Andrew Aiello just miles and hurley which is a bit odd indeed.
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Nevertheless, we borrowed a little "hurley," or handcart, from the baker's girl opposite, who certainly bore no malice.
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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.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Even Donnacha had managed to get on the bus and he had never held a hurley in his life.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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So what else got covered -- there was the pint, the hurley and... oh yes...
John Lee: Obama in Ireland Gets Pint's Worth of Coverage in U.S. John Lee 2011
chained_bear commented on the word hurley
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
February 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word hurley
Earlier a surly, gnarly, sturdy, burly Charlie unfairly furtively filched a Gaelic girly's curly hurley.
September 8, 2022