† hurley-hacketn.
Scottish. Obsolete.attributive.a1861 R. Rae in W. Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming iii. 21 Fancy leads me back to some..Tremendous hurley~hacket rowe.
1. A sport consisting in sliding down a steep place in a trough or sledge, as in the modern tobogganing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun]
hurley-hacket1529
coasting1775
tobogganing1849
toboggan1870
bobsledding1880
bobsleighing1885
bobbing1888
luging1907
bobsleigh1911
bobsled1932
luge1966
1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 176 Sum gart hym raiffell at the rakkat: sum harld hym to the hurly hakkat.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake (ed. 2) v. Notes 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.
2. Applied contemptuously to an ill-hung carriage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > ill-hung or jolting
hurley-hacket1823
jolter1841
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 51 I never thought to have entered ane o' their hurley-hackets.
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