hurtle
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hurtle¹
- /ˈhɜːtl̩/ UK
- /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/ US
- [-ɾ(ə)l] US
Sounds like hurdle (t/d-flapping dialects) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.
verb hurtles · hurtling · hurtled · hurtle
- 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.
- 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.
- To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
- To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner. The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
- 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
- To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound. The noiſe of Battell hurtled in the Ayre: / Horſſes do neigh, and dying men did grone, / And Ghoſts did ſhrieke and ſqueale about the ſtreets.
- Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
noun hurtles
- 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, […]
- 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.
- 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.
- (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
hurtle²
- /ˈhɜːtl̩/ UK
- /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/ US
- [-ɾ(ə)l] US
Sounds like hurdle (t/d-flapping dialects) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Where it comes from
Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).
noun hurtles
- 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, […]
hurtle³
- /ˈhɜːtl̩/ UK
- /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/ US
- [-ɾ(ə)l] US
Sounds like hurdle (t/d-flapping dialects) · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Where it comes from
See hurdle.
noun
- Misspelling of hurdle.hurdle
