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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HURT'LE, v.i. [from hurt.] To clash or run against; to jostle; to skirmish; to meet in shock and encounter; to wheel suddenly. [Not now used.]
HURT'LE, v.t. To move with violence or impetuosity.
1. To push forcibly; to whirl.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by"
2: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust]
3: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle, cast]

Merriam Webster's

verb (hurtled; hurtling) Etymology: Middle English hurtlen to collide, frequentative of hurten to cause to strike, hurt Date: 14th century intransitive verb to move rapidly or forcefully transitive verb hurl, fling • hurtle noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 intr. & tr. move or hurl rapidly or with a clattering sound. 2 intr. come with a crash. Etymology: HURT in obs. sense 'strike forcibly'

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hurtle 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's 1913 Dictionary

Hurtle 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hurtles, hurtling, hurtled) If someone or something hurtles somewhere, they move there very quickly, often in a rough or violent way. A pretty young girl came hurtling down the stairs. = career, dash VERB: V prep

Moby Thesaurus

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