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Hurtle v. i. (past & past part. hurtled; pres. part. hurtling)

To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. "Together hurtled both their steeds."

To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish. "Now hurtling round, advantage for to take." "Down the hurtling cataract of the ages."

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." "The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hurtle" Quotes from Famous Books

... watch, and as instinctively understood that though pressed to his best, de la Mora desired to be left alone. Verily it was a gentleman's fight, and no odds, for love and glory's sake, though the Spaniard might have had a whit the better. As I fought on, I heard the swift hurtle of a flying knife, and saw the Spaniard drop his sword. De la Mora glanced round with indignant eyes to the Choctaw who had made the cast, now looking for approval from this gentleman who sang like a woman and fought like a fiend. The Chevalier was like to have wreaked summary vengeance for striking ...

— The Black Wolf's Breed - A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening - in the Reign of Louis XIV • Harris Dickson

Words linked to "Hurtle" : bowl, travel, move, sling, riposte, go, precipitate, thrust, hurl, cast, throw, catapult, locomote, lunge, dash, dart, crash