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.
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.