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  1. 1. v. t. To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To push; to jostle; to hurl. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. move with or as if with a rushing sound Source: wordnet
  7. 7. v. make a thrusting forward movement Source: wordnet
  8. 8. v. throw forcefully Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 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. 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. Source: webster
  10. 10. v:100 v. move with or as if with a rushing sound Source: ecdict

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