Hurlebarde is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 10 characters long in length.
A variation of the Hurlburt. Descendant of Hurlbert meaning "army, bright"; one proficient with a hurlebattle in the medieval game of hurling; one who used a hurlbat in combat.
Hurlebarde is form of Hurlbat. Halliwell, citing Howell, defines hurlebat as a kind of dart, which is clearly a misapprehension. Found in Boyer's English-French, and Ainsworth's Latin Dictionaries. The latter gives it as the equivalent of the classical cæstus, and describes it as "a kind of club, or rather thong of leather, having plummets of lead fastened to it, used in boxing." But there was another implement of sport used in the time of Elizabeth for the game of 'hurling' which was called the "clubbe or hurle-batte." For a description of hurling, see Hone's Strutt's Sports and Pastimes. This surname, like Shakespeare, Wagstaffe, etc., comes from some feat of strength on the part of the original bearer. Johnson gives "Whirlbat, anything moved rapidly round to give a blow," and adds, "It is frequently used by the poets for the ancient castus." He cites L'Estrange, Creech, and Dryden, for the use of the word. The names Rob. Hurlebat, and Thos. Hurl le-batte occur in documents 15 Ric. III.