D defs.my
Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Hurtle

/hẽrt'-əl/ · Hur·tle · IPA /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
01 v. i. To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
imp. & p. p. Hurtled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling
  1. 1.
    To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
    “Together hurtled both their steeds.” Fairfax.
  2. 2.
    To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
    “Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.” Spenser.
    “Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.” — R. L. Stevenson.
  3. 3.
    To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
    “The noise of battle hurtled in the air.” Shak.
    “The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground.” Mrs. Browning.
02 v. t. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
  1. 1.
    To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.[Obs.]
    “His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.” Spenser.
  2. 2.
    To push; to jostle; to hurl.
    “And he hurtleth with his horse adown.” Chaucer.