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hurtle
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Word definitions for hurtle in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB down ▪ The gulls mewed and the sand shifted and the swan hurtled down and it was easy. ▪ Within seconds of hurtling down the runway the great plane was airborne. ▪ The slightest wind could send him hurtling down towards ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurtle \Hur"tle\, v. t. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [Obs.] His harmful club he gan to hurtle high. --Spenser. To push; to jostle; to hurl. And he hurtleth with his horse adown. --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., hurteln , "to crash together; to crash down, knock down," probably frequentative of hurten (see hurt (v.)) in its original sense. Intransitive meaning "to rush, dash, charge" is late 14c. The essential notion in hurtle is that of forcible collision, ...
Usage examples of hurtle.
Two goblins hurtled out in their wake, scratching and biting and both afire from head to foot.
Chamberlain would scarcely have time to read it before the Nazi armies hurtled into Poland at dawn on the morrow - the X Day which still held?
That told the LSO that he had the meatball in sight, confirmed that his aircraft was a Tomcat so that the arrestor cables could be properly adjusted for the hurtling weight of the aircraft, and that his fuel was reading five thousand pounds.
Crewmen on the deck scrambled for safety as the F14, its left wing dragging on steel, spun broadside, snapping the arrestor cables one after another as it hurtled toward a row of A6 Intruders just abaft of the island.
The two incoming MiGs flashed past the damaged Tomcat, hurtling toward the south before beginning a broad, sweeping turn which would bring them in behind Batman and Malibu.
Still hurtling toward the SAM, Batman rolled the Tomcat right until he was canopy down, then brought the stick back and headed for the ground.
Just as they were ready to start a big gum-nut came hurtling down and hit Blinky right on his nose.
Behind, on the parapet of the palace, Bozo stared after the hurtling craft.
The bubbler ripped loose, hurtled away, and impacted on the roof of a monastery half a mile downrange.
Casting before him a cabbalistic incantation that smashed the etheric lattice of the window, and seemed to carry him with it, out of the pavilion he sprang, snatching up as he hurtled through a sword of honed steel from the bench.
The silth had conjured them into the Up-and-Over, where the darkship dagger hurtled faster than light.
No one knew when it would end, because as long as man set hurtling engines on ribbons of steel rail, derailments were inevitable.
Springing to pursuit, The Shadow saw the dwarfish body hurtling to the roof of the next building, two stories below.
And it was these two very ordinary, but utterly irresistible planets, instead of the negative-matter bombs with which the Eich were prepared to cope, which hurtled then along the axis of the immense tube of warships toward Jarnevon.
Instead, each individual vessel was blasting at maximum for the position in space in which it would form one unit of a formation englobing at a distance of light-years the entire Solarian System, and each of those hurtling hundreds of ships was literally combing all circumambient space with its furiously-driven detector beams.