Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who hurries.

  2. (UK, obsolete)A child employed in a coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom is too much of a hurrier.

Origin

From hurry + -er.

From hurry + -er.

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Forms

plural: hurriers
Singularhurrier
Pluralhurriers

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpit pony

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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