Meaning of hurtle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
   countable, literary, poetic
2. Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).
   literary, obsolete, poetic, rare
3. A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
   also, countable, figuratively, literary, poetic
4. A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
   countable, literary, poetic
5. (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
   figuratively, literary, poetic, uncountable

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Examples

“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, […]”

“[T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.”

“Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.”

“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.”

“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, […]”

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