Hur"tle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hurtled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling (?).] [OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.]
1.
To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
Together hurtled both their steeds.
Fairfax.
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.
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.
© Webster 1913.
Hur"tle (?), v. t.
1.
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
[Obs.]
His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.
Spenser.
2.
To push; to jostle; to hurl.
And he hurtleth with his horse adown.
Chaucer.
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