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Hurter

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (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.

Synonyms: Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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