different between hurtle vs furtle

English

Etymology

From Middle English hurtlen, hurtelen, equivalent to hurt +? -le.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??tl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?tl/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Verb

hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled)

1. (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.

   The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

   Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

   • Together hurtled both their steeds.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
   • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim

     The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

4. (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.

   He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.

5. (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Translations

Noun

hurtle (plural hurtles)

1. A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
   • 1975, John Wakeman, Literary Criticism

     But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.

   • 2005, June 20, The Guardian

     Jamba has removed from 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.

2. A clattering sound.
   • 1913, Eden Phillpotts, Widecombe Fair, page 26

     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.

Anagrams

• Luther, lureth, ruleth

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??tl/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Noun

furtle (plural furtles)

1. (chiefly Britain) A cursory examination of the contents or details of something.
   • 2005, Chloe Richards, Oops!, ?ISBN, p. 226 (Google preview):

     Then he looked back at his glossy, had a furtle with something in his pocket, and then looked back at me.

   • 2008, Iain M. Banks, Matter, ?ISBN, ch. 8 (Google preview):

     “Let me just have a quick furtle.” He dug his hand elbow-deep into the bag.

   • 2010, Stanley Challenger Graham, Stanley's View, Volume 6, ?ISBN, (Google preview):

     It was so unusual that I went for another furtle in the 1881 census to find her family.

Verb

furtle (third-person singular simple present furtles, present participle furtling, simple past and past participle furtled)

1. (chiefly Britain, intransitive) To gently delve; to probe or rummage tentatively.
   • 2005, Carole Matthews, You Drive Me Crazy, ?ISBN, (Google preview):

     A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts.

   • 2008, Peter Helton, Rainstone Fall, ?ISBN, (Google preview):

     Needham was already half-heartedly furtling about in the kitchen, opening cupboards without bothering to search them, letting his left hand trail over objects as though he was thinking with his fleshy fingers

   • 2011, Mark R. Faulkner, Flux, ?ISBN, p. 4 (Google preview):

     Furtling amongst the loose change and accumulated junk, he finally found what he was looking for.

Anagrams

• fluter