▪ I. hurly1
(ˈhɜːlɪ)
[f. hurl v.: cf. hurling vbl. n. 3.]
Commotion, tumult, uproar; strife.
| 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 206 Amid this hurlie I intend That all is done in reuerend care for her. 1600 Holland Livy viii. xxvii. 301 In this hurlie and uprore [tumultu]. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 844 All things being thus in a hurley and out of order. 1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 74 Oft in the hurly of the winter storm. 1855 Singleton Virgil II. 16 Amid the hurly and the din. 1888 Harper's Mag. Jan. 203/1 The wind screamed..Pokeberry squatted ignominiously in the fierce hurly. |
▪ II. hurly2 Sc. and dial.
(ˈhɜːlɪ)
[f. hurl v.]
A porter's barrow, a hand-cart.
| 1866 Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Hurly, a large kind of wheel⁓barrow used by porters. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss., Hurly..(2) a long, low cart with two wheels. 1892 G. Travers Mona Maclean (1893) II. 10 Bill had a lot of luggage on a hurley. |