Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hurt

Hurt , noun

(a)
(Machinery) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(b)
(Machinery) A husk. See Husk, 2.

Hurt , transitive verb

[Old English hurten, hirten, horten, herten; prob. from Old French hurter, heurter, to knock, thrust, strike, French heurter; compare Welsh hyrddu to push, drive, assault, hwrdd a stroke, blow, push; also, a ram, the orig. sense of the verb thus perhaps being, to butt as a ram; compare Dutch horten to push, strike, Middle High German hurten, both prob. from Old French.]

1.
To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
The hurt lion groans within his den. — Dryden
2.
To impair the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt. — Milton
3.
To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
I am angry and hurt. — Thackeray