hurtle

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HURTLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HURTLE 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],[1] 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”)[2] (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix).[3] The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) +‎ -le (frequentative suffix)Category:English terms suffixed with -le (frequentative)#HURTLE.[4]

The noun is derived from the verb.[5]

Verb

hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled)Category:English lemmas#HURTLECategory:English verbs#HURTLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HURTLECategory:Pages with entries#HURTLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#HURTLE (chiefly literaryCategory:English literary terms#HURTLE, poeticCategory:English poetic terms#HURTLE)

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HURTLE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#HURTLE)
    1. To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:throw
      He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.Category:English terms with usage examples#HURTLE
    2. 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.
    3. (figuratively) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
  2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HURTLE)
    1. To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:move quickly
      The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.Category:English terms with usage examples#HURTLE
      Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.Category:English terms with usage examples#HURTLE
    2. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#HURTLE)
      1. 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.
      2. To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
      3. (figuratively) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
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Noun

hurtle (countable and uncountable, plural hurtles)Category:English lemmas#HURTLECategory:English nouns#HURTLECategory:English uncountable nouns#HURTLECategory:English countable nouns#HURTLECategory:English countable nouns#HURTLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HURTLECategory:Pages with entries#HURTLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#HURTLE (chiefly literaryCategory:English literary terms#HURTLE, poeticCategory:English poetic terms#HURTLE)

  1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#HURTLE) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
  2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#HURTLE, also figuratively) A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
  3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#HURTLE) A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
  4. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#HURTLE, figuratively) (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
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Etymology 2

The bilberry, hurtleberry, or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), formerly also called the hurtle.

Possibly a clipping of hurtleberryCategory:English clippings#HURTLE, from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HURTLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HURTLE hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”);[6] further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).[7]

Noun

hurtle (plural hurtles)Category:English lemmas#HURTLECategory:English nouns#HURTLECategory:English countable nouns#HURTLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HURTLECategory:Pages with entries#HURTLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#HURTLE

  1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#HURTLE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#HURTLE) Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).
    Synonym: (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) hurt
    • 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Whortes, or Whortle berries”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book III, page 1229:
      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, […]
      Category:English terms with quotations#HURTLE
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Etymology 3

See hurdle.

Noun

hurtleCategory:English non-lemma forms#HURTLECategory:English misspellings#HURTLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HURTLECategory:Pages with entries#HURTLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#HURTLE

  1. Misspelling of hurdleCategory:English misspellings#HURTLE.

References

  1. ↑ “hurtelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ↑ “hurten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ↑ “-el-, suf.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ↑ “hurtle, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2022; “hurtle, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  5. ↑ “hurtle, n.3”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
  6. ↑ “hurtil-berī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  7. ↑ “horten, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: see the supplemental materials (the original gloss states “some kind of fruit tree; ?the cornel cherry”).

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Anagrams

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Middle English

Verb

hurtleCategory:Middle English alternative forms#HURTLECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#HURTLECategory:Pages with entries#HURTLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#HURTLE

  1. alternative form of hurtelen
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