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ˈhurlbat
Also 5–6 hurlebatte, 7 whorlebat, 7–8 whirl-bat.
[app. f. hurl v. + bat n.2 The earlier instances are mostly in translations, in which it is used to render two quite different words, aclys and cæstus, the latter app. through doubt as to its meaning. Cf. the following:
1696Kennett Rom. Antiq. (1713) 255 The cestus were either a sort of leathern guards for the hands, compos'd of thongs and commonly filled with lead or iron to add force and weight to the blow: Or, according to others, a kind of whirlbats or bludgeons of wood.]
†1. A weapon, ? some form of club; in 16th c. Lat.-Eng. Dictionaries, glossing L. aclys (aclis) a small javelin. Obs.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 105 Pleying at þe two hande swerd, at swerd & bokelere, & at two pyked staf, at þe hurlebatte. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) v. xviii. 220/1 In playes of hethen men..as in playnge at the swerde & bokeler, at the staffe twohandswerde hurlebat in tourmentes. 1548Elyot Dict., Aclis, a kynde of weapon, vsed in olde tyme, as it wer an hurlebatte. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Aclis, a kinde of weapon tyed by a string, much lyke a hurlebatte. Ibid., Adides [i.e. aclides], short battes of a cubit long and a halfe, with pykes of yron, and were tied to a line, that when they were throwne, one might plucke them againe: Hurlebattes. 1634Withal's Dict. 377/2 Hurlebats having pikes of yron in the end, adides. 1656Blount, Hurlebats (adides). See Whorlebats.
†2. Used to render L. cæstus cestus2, partly through misapprehension of its meaning: see quot. in etym. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. v. iv. 773 Flinging the coit of brasse; yea, and as some say, at hurl-bats and fist-fight. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xxx. ix. 392 The moving of his armes, laying about him as if they had beene fighting at hurlebats [velut cæstibus dimicantium]. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. (1626) 91 Inuincible with hurle-bats [cæstibus invicti]. 1634Withal's Dict. 265/2 A whorle-bat, an Instrument of Leather covered with lead, to buffet one another, cæstus. 1700Dryden Fables Pref. Wks. (Globe) 506 He rejected them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus [æneid v. 400–420]. 1791Cowper Iliad vii. 167 Where him his royal whirl⁓bat nought avail'd.
3. The bat or stick used in the Irish game of hurling; = hurl n. 2.
1820–29Callanan Convict of Clonmell in Hayes Ballads Irel. I. 347 At my bed-foot decaying My hurlbat is lying.
Hence hurlbatting, († whirlbatting), contending with hurlbats.
1744J. Paterson Comm. Milton's P.L. 208 The valient youths exercised themselves, at running, whirlbating, quoiting, jumping and wrestling. |