Definitions
Move or rush forward with force.
Word origin
Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).
Used in a sentence
“He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.”
“Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]”
“Such a curse on my head, in a manifest dread, / From the hand of your Zeus has been hurtled along!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rush forward”6 letters
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