'Hurter' definitions:

Definition of 'Hurter'

From: GCIDE
  • Hurter \Hurt"er\, n. One who hurts or does harm. [1913 Webster]
  • I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hurter'

From: GCIDE
  • Hurter \Hurt"er\, n.
  • 1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. [1913 Webster]
  • But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou dost me yet but little hurt. --Shak.
  • Syn: Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hurter'

From: GCIDE
  • Hurter \Hurt"er\, n. [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t.] 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. [1913 Webster]