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Definition of Hurriers
1. hurrier [n] - See also: hurrier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurriers
Literary usage of Hurriers
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)
"A reference to the tables will shew seventeen out of thirty, in six pits, between
that age and nine. "hurriers are children who draw loaded ..."
2. Geological and Mining Report on the Leinster Coal District by Richard John Griffith (1814)
"... should be discontinued; that each collier should work for himself; that hurriers
should be paid by the ton for drawing the coals to the pit bottom, and, ..."
3. Histories of Bolton and Bowling (townships of Bradford): Historically and by William Cudworth (1891)
"4d. a dozen of twenty-six corves at the two Gin Pits, whereof the hurriers are
to have l)4d. "At the Sough Pit 3s. nd., whereof the collier is to take 1d. ..."
4. The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire by Joseph Tilley (1899)
"It is not necessary, says Hodder, " to describe how the sides of the hurriers
were blistered and their ankles strained, how their backs were chafed by ..."
5. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"In the pages of Life he discovered some comic pictures illustrating the possibility
of applying electrical hurriers to messenger boys, waiters, etc. ..."
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