Beau. & Fl.
Hurt"er, n. [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t.] A butting
piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower
end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from
injuring the parapet.
Hurt"ful (?), a. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous;
occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental;
disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
destructive.
-- Hurt"ful*ly, adv. -- Hurt"ful*ness, n.
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.
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.