0 a stick with a wide, flat oval end, used in the game of hurling (= an Irish team game similar to hockey):
Hurling players can catch and carry the ball with their hand but can only pass with a hurley, foot or a slap of the hand.
Children have been photographed playing cricket with hurleys on the streets around Croke Park.
Players use wooden, axe-shaped sticks called hurleys to hit a small ball (a sliotar) into the opponent's goal.
He was a hurley player in County Cork.
