hurter

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
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Etymology 1

hurt + -er

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

  1. One who hurts or does harm.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt + -or.

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

  1. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage.
    • 2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60:
      For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice

Old French

Etymology

Frankish *hurton, from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (to fall, beat), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (to fall, beat, smash, strike, break).

Verb

hurter

  1. to crash into; to clatter into

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • French: heurter

Further reading

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