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Hurtle
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.