Word Meanings - WHURRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.

Related words: (words related to WHURRY)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED
  Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. Thackeray.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• CHARIOTEE
  A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
• WHISKY RING; WHISKEY RING
  A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow,
• WHISKIN
  A shallow drinking bowl. Ray.
• WHISKEY; WHISKY
  A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.
• WHISK
  1. To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth. 2. To move with a quick, sweeping motion. He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod. J. Fletcher. I beg she
• WHISKY; WHISKEY
  An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from
• HURRY
  haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to 1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak. 2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action;
• WHISKET
  A small lathe for turning wooden pins. (more info) 1. A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. Halliwell.
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• WHISKERLESS
  Being without whiskers.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• ALONG
  Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• ALONGST
  Along.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• BOURBON WHISKY
  See WHISKY
• TIM-WHISKEY
  A kind of carriage. See Whiskey. Southery.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• ALALONGA; ALILONGHI
  The tunny. See Albicore.