hurry

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• Hurry

  ·vt To cause to be done quickly. II. Hurry ·vt To <<Hasten>>; to impel to greater speed; to urge on...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hurry

  (which Grose explains " a small load of hay or corn. North.") Rather the turn, as two or three hurri...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Hurry-skurry

  ·adv Confusedly; in a bustle. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rack-hurry

  The tram-way on which coal-waggons run to a hurry. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hurry up the cakes

  i.e. Be quick; look alive. This phrase, which has lately got into vogue, originated in the common Ne...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.