\Hurt"er\, n.
1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the
   like.
         The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel.
                                               --Locke.
2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a
   stain; as of sin.
         But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that
         Honor feels.                          --Tennyson.
3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief.
         Thou dost me yet but little hurt.     --Shak.
Syn: Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment;
     mischief; bane; disadvantage.

\Hurt"er\, n.
One who hurts or does harm.
      I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.   --Beau. & Fl.

\Hurt"er\, n. [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See {Hurt},
v. t.]
A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece
of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent
the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.