Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hurter \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.

Hurter \Hurt"er\, n.
   One who hurts or does harm.

         I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.   --Beau. & Fl.

Hurter \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.