▪ I. hurtling, vbl. n.
(ˈhɜːtlɪŋ)
[f. hurtle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb hurtle; clashing, collision, conflict; † a charge, onset; dashing, rushing, darting, etc.: see the verb.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 166 Mid a lutel hurlunge [MS. T. hurtlinge] ȝe muhten al uor leosen. a 1300 Cursor M. 27931 Hurtling o sculder. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 153 Noyse and hurtlynge to gidre of armure was i-herd. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. viii. 55 At the hurtlynge hit semed as theyr brayne sturt oute. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 132 Kindnesse..Made him giue battell to the Lyonnesse: Who quickly fell before him, in which hurtling From miserable slumber I awaked. 1670 Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. (1851) 33 Amaz'd at the strangeness of those new Sea Castles..the hurtling of Oares, the battring of fierce Engines. 1814 Cary Dante, Inf. xxiv. 146 Sharp and eager driveth on the storm With arrowy hurtling o'er Piceno's field. 1892 Pall Mall G. 11 Oct. 2/2 Useful points in his letter..obscured in the hurtling of his abusive rhetoric. |
▪ II. ˈhurtling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That hurtles: see the verb.
| 1832 L. Hunt Poems, Gentle Armour ii. 45 Clatt'ring shields, and helms, and hurtling steeds. 1851–5 G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 41 A hurtling storm of multitudinous arrowy rounds. 1897 Fortn. Rev. July 139 Devoutly crossing themselves as every hurtling shell burst near. |
Hence ˈhurtlingly adv.
| 1882 Farrar Early Chr. I. x. 217 The day of the Lord..in which the heavens shall pass hurtlingly away. |