单词 | hurley-hacket |
释义 | † hurley-hacket Sc. Obs. Also 6 hurly hakkat. [Cf. hurl v., hurly2.] 1. A sport consisting in sliding down a steep place in a trough or sledge, as in the modern tobogganing.
1529Lyndesay Complaynt 176 Sum gart hym raiffell at the rakkat: sum harld hym to the hurly hakkat. 1810Scott Lady of L. v. note ix. (ed. 2) 411 The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton-hill, using for their seat a horse's scull. attrib.a1861R. Rae in Hunter Biggar & Ho. Fleming iii. 21 Fancy leads me back to some..Tremendous hurley⁓hacket rowe. 2. Applied contemptuously to an ill-hung carriage.
1824Scott St. Ronan's xv, I never thought to have entered ane o' their hurley-hackets. |

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