hurrier

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who hurries.
  2. 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.

Word forms

hurrier hurriers

Etymology

From hurry + -er.

Related words

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