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hurter

/ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

hurter noun: one who hurts or does harm.

Noun (1)

hurter (plural hurters)

  1. One who hurts or does harm.
    • I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and...

Noun (2)

hurter (plural hurters)

  1. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage.
    • For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60

Forms of hurter

pluralhurters

Origin of hurter

From hurt + -er.

Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt + -or.

Questions about hurter

What does hurter mean?
Hurter means one who hurts or does harm.
What part of speech is hurter?
Hurter is a noun.
How do you pronounce hurter?
Hurter is pronounced /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of hurter?
The plural of hurter is hurters.

Words near hurter in the dictionary

  1. hurte
  2. hurted
  3. hurtedst
  4. hurtee
  5. hurtees
  6. hurter
  7. hurters
  8. hurtes
  9. hurtest
  10. hurteth
  11. hurtful

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