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Definition of Hurrier
1. n. One who hurries or urges.
Definition of Hurrier
1. Noun. A person who hurries. ¹
2. Noun. (British obsolete) A young boy or girl employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hurrier
1. one that hurries [n -S] - See also: hurries
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurrier
Literary usage of Hurrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources by George Palmer Putnam (1845)
"Esther Craven, aged fourteen, says— " I have been hurrier for Joseph Ibbotson
all the time of five ... and a sister a hurrier, and a little one at home. ..."
2. The Perils of the Nation: An Appeal to the Legislatvre, the Clergy, and High by Robert Benton Seeley (1843)
"When the passage is sufficiently high to admit of it, the hurrier faces the front
of the corve, and, by violent effort, pulls it along, proceeding backwards ..."
3. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1878)
"... similarly, liability should be incurred by the master where, for example, a
miner employed his own hurrier or boy, paying him his own rate of wages, ..."
4. The Physical and Moral Condition of the Children and Young Persons Employed by Great Britain (1843)
"Elizabeth Day, hurrier, Messrs. ... hurrier in Messrs. Thorpe's colliery : " The
work is far too hard for me ; the sweat runs off me. all over sometimes. ..."
5. Histories of Bolton and Bowling (townships of Bradford): Historically and by William Cudworth (1891)
"... each man receiving one guinea for himself and hurrier (getters and ... "At the
Sough Pit 3s. nd., whereof the collier is to take 1d. and the hurrier 1d. ..."
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