Definition: hurtle

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

hurtle
     v 1: move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled
          by"
     2: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, thrust]
     3: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, cast]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
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.