hurter

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

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From hurt +‎ -er.

hurter (plural hurters)

1. One who hurts or does harm.
   • 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:

     I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.

Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt +‎ -or.

hurter (plural hurters)

1. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage.
   • 2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60:

     For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice

Frankish *hurton, from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”).

hurter

1. to crash into; to clatter into
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     qu'ert d'antre les altres sevree,
     si l'a ferue et si hurtee

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   • c. 1220, Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose:

     Elle se rompoit et batoit
     Et ses poingz ensemble hurtoit.

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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• French: heurter

• “heurter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.