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Definition of Hurter
1. n. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like.
2. n. One who hurts or does harm.
3. 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.
Definition of Hurter
1. Noun. A person who hurts another. ¹
2. Noun. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hurter
1. one that hurts [n -S] - See also: hurts
Medical Definition of Hurter
1. A butting piece; a strengthening piece, especially., A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet. Origin: F. Heurtoir, lit, a striker. See Hurt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurter
Literary usage of Hurter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"As the face of this step is inclined so as to offer no support, the prop slides
down a passage in the hurter and down " the slide " behind the hurter until ..."
2. The Science and Practice of Photography: An Elementary Textbook on the by John Ransom Roebuck (1918)
"In 1890 two Englishmen, hurter and Driffield published 1 a description of ...
hurter and Driffield begin with a definition of a perfect negative—"when the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"I, 392-93; hurter, Nomenclátor, II, 96-97; THADDEUS, The Franciscans in
England (London, ... hurter, Nomenclátor. I, 203 sq.; SCHULTE, Gesch. Her Quellen u. ..."
4. The Power of the Pope During the Middle Ages by Jean Edme Auguste Gosselin (1853)
"Conduct of Innocent III. on this Occasion vindicated by M. hurter. ... The pope's
language to the two kings," observes M. hurter,2 " is the energetic ..."
5. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"CHAPTER X EXPOSURE Gradation the test of exposure—hurter and ... exposure—Strength
of light—The influence of the lens—The speed of plates—The hurter and ..."
6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"McClellan . 'h the rank of lieutenant-colonel in Septem- • т, major in the
quartermaster's department n .'an. 1862, aud chief quartermaster of the hurter, ..."
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