hurried See hurryhurried adj : moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job" [ant: unhurried]hurry

1 a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door" [syn: haste]

2 overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste" [syn: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation]

3 the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" [syn: haste, rush, rushing]

1 move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, zip]

2 act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!" [syn: rush, hasten, look sharp, festinate]

3 urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!" [syn: rush] [ant: delay] [also: hurried]

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hurried

A hurrier, also sometimes called a coal drawer, was a child employed by a collier to transport the coal that they had mined. Common particularly in the early 19th century, the hurrier pulled a corf (baskets or small wagons) full of coal along roadways as small as 16 inches in height. They would often work 12 hour shifts, making several runs down to the coal face and back to the surface again.

Some children came from the workhouses and were apprenticed to the colliers. Adults could not easily do the job because of the size of the roadways, which were limited on the grounds of cost and structural integrity. The younger ones often worked in small teams, with those pushing the corf from the rear being known as thrusters. The thrusters often had to push the corf using their heads, leading to the hair on their crown being worn away and the child becoming bald.

As mines grew larger the volume of coal extracted increased beyond the pulling capabilities of children. Instead horses guided by coal drivers were used to pull the corves. These drivers were usually older children between the ages of 10 and 14.

References

External links

• "Mining in the Victorian Age" – National Coal Mining Museum for England.
• "The Pit in Poems" – This Is Lancashire.

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