hurtle

UK /ˈhɜːtl̩/ US /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
noun 6verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.

He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.

Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]

2

To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.

Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position.

3

To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.

4

To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.

The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.

5

Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.

Yet could not all that force and furie ſhake / The valiant champions, nor their perſons vvound, / Together hurtled both their ſteedes, and brake / Each others necke, the riders lay on ground: / But they (great maſters of vvars dreadfull art) / Pluckt forth their ſvvords and ſoone from earth vp ſtart.

noun

1

An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.

I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […]

2

A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.

[T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.

Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

3

A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.

There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

4

(Violent) disagreement; conflict.

noun

1

Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).

Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]

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