Hurt"er, 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.
Syn. -- Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss;
detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.
Hurt"er (?), n. One who hurts or
does harm.
I shall not be a hurter, if no
helper.
Beau. & Fl.
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.
