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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hur·tle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hurtled p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling ]
 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.