Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hurter"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hurter \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hurter \Hurt"er\, n.
One who hurts or does harm.

I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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