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Princeton's WordNet

  1. speed, speeding, hurryingadjective

    changing location rapidly

  2. hurrying, scurryingadjective

    moving with great haste

    "affection for this hurrying driving...little man"; "lashed the scurrying horses"

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  1. Hurrying

    A hurrier, also sometimes called a coal drawer or coal thruster, was a child or woman employed by a collier to transport the coal that they had mined. Women would normally get the children to help them because of the difficulty of carrying the coal. Common particularly in the early 19th century, the hurrier pulled a corf (basket or small wagon) full of coal along roadways as small as 0.4 metres (16 in) in height. They would often work 12-hour shifts, making several runs down to the coal face and back to the surface again.Some children came from the workhouses and were apprenticed to the colliers. Adults could not easily do the job because of the size of the roadways, which were limited on the grounds of cost and structural integrity. Hurriers were equipped with a "gurl" belt – a leather belt with a swivel chain linked to the corf. They were also given candles as it was too expensive to light the whole mine.

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  1. hurrying

    Hurrying refers to moving or acting swiftly, typically in a rushed manner due to limited time constraints or urgency. It can also imply an eagerness or willingness to do something quickly in order to achieve a certain goal or complete a task.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hurrying

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  1. Hurrying

    A hurrier, also sometimes called a coal drawer or coal thruster, was a child or woman employed by a collier to transport the coal that they had mined. Women would normally get the children to help them because of the difficulty of carrying the coal. Common particularly in the early 19th century, the hurrier pulled a corf full of coal along roadways as small as 16 inches in height. They would often work 12 hour shifts, making several runs down to the coal face and back to the surface again. Some children came from the workhouses and were apprenticed to the colliers. Adults could not easily do the job because of the size of the roadways, which were limited on the grounds of cost and structural integrity. Hurriers were equipped with a "gurl" belt – a leather belt with a swivel chain linked to the corf. They were also given candles as it was too expensive to light the whole mine.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hurrying in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hurrying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of hurrying in a Sentence

  1. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

    'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air.

  2. E. M. Forster:

    Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

  3. Kin Hubbard:

    One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

  4. William Wordsworth:

    When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

  5. Dejan Stojanovic:

    You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.

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