hurriern.
/ˈhʌrɪə/ 1. One who hurries (in various senses).
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tracasseur, a restlesse trotter, or hurrier vp and downe; a fond busie bodie.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 346 Mars..(That horrid hurrier of men).
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man ii. 72 A world of capricious external hurriers.
2. Coal Mining. A workman engaged in conveying the corves of coal from the face of the working to the bottom of the shaft.
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1825 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 4 The corves..were drawn to the shaft of the pit by several other men called hurriers.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 127 The men..were all supplied with safety-lamps—the hewers with Stephenson's, and the hurriers with Davy's.
1893 Daily News 5 July 5/7 78 miners, 45 hurriers, 20 pony drivers, and four hangers on.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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