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hurley

[hur-lee] / ˈhɜr li /


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A splintered hurley, a couple of calls for a trainer, a few shoulder bumps, and then several scrums that seem incidental to the ball.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015

Blurs of men continue their hurley battle for a ball skittering across a Kinvara field.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015

They will cheer for neighbors, including 18-year-old Conor Whelan, who was on this very grass the night before, practicing and practicing his hurley moves, alone.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015

Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well," said the woman, "I have three sons, and they used to play hurley with the three sons of the king of the Sasenach,6 and they were more than a match for the king's sons.

From Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin

I emerged into the sunshine to see a group of boys goofing around on the lush castle lawns, using their hurleys to bat around a ball much the way Americans might toss a Frisbee together.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2018

On the Connemara side, players had sat with hurleys in hand as their wiry manager, a school psychologist named Rory O Bearra, encouraged in the language of Irish:

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015

The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 800 of them, scowling young men from the hills of Leitrim and neighboring counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Are you deserting me, Peter?" put in Kitty playfully; "the other hurlies are busy with the De Lancey party; we must have two or three at least."

From An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln




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