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  • noun Plural form of hurley.

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Examples

  • I mean, all that celibacy, they had nothing else to vent their unholy hormonal urges on, so those boys were always taking lumps out of each other with hurleys and the like, out on the playing fields.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Children were photographed playing cricket with hurleys the wooden sticks used in the Irish sport of hurling on the streets around Croke Park in Dublin, the traditional home of Gaelic sport.

    Irish Cricket Seeks World Status Richard Gillis 2010

  • Naturally I noticed that the display of implements said to have been carved by prisoners included even mopre hurleys than harps -- almost as many hurleys as Celtic crosses.

    विमल, or meet Vimal, India's pulp hero Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Sean, are you prepared to be whacked by hurleys or by fast bowlers?

    विमल, or meet Vimal, India's pulp hero Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Adrian, you must have the innocent vuvuzela mixed up with baseball bats or hurleys, subjects of recent discussion here.

    Crimefest 2010, Day II, Part I: Sex, violence and vuvuzelas Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Children were photographed playing cricket with hurleys the wooden sticks used in the Irish sport of hurling on the streets around Croke Park in Dublin, the traditional home of Gaelic sport.

    Irish Cricket Seeks World Status Richard Gillis 2010

  • Those whirling, whacking, dribbling hurleys create the potential for high-sticking mayhem on every play.

    Do hard-edged crime series get harder as they progress? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Men with hockey-sticks, or hurleys as they called them, at a shambling march, their green armbands a scandalous sedition of the chromatic propriety.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • All save a few of the all-for-Ireland boys that Aunt Sawney cursed for Fenians whenever they marched down Adelaide Road, which they did the odd Saturday afternoon, hurleys upon their shoulders.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • In the meantime collections were made for jerseys and boots, hurleys and balls.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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