hurley
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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
What happens in that pursuit is a fearless athleticism of stops and starts, feints and sprints, bangs and bruises, all with the wide-ended hurley stick used to balance, swing and block.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2015
The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, he half hoped that if it came to that, he might escape in the hurley.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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
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
The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys."
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
