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.
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.
US interest rates might not be rising now, but if the economy was allowed to hurtle into capacity constraints, they would eventually be forced into the stratosphere.
Why would a company whose whole ethic is to hurtle forward as fast as possible want to go back?
Two nationalities with a long tradition of animosity stopped and shared a moment as they hurtle in opposite directions.
Scientists will use it to hurtle proton beams into each other in a search for the basic building blocks of matter.