Hurtle vs Gallop - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between hurtle and gallop

is that hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control while gallop is (intransitive of a horse, etc) to run at a gallop.

As nouns the difference between hurtle and gallop

is that hurtle is a fast movement in literal or figurative sense while gallop is the fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)

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.

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

* Fairfax

Together hurtled both their steeds.

(archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

* Shakespeare

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.

* Elizabeth Browning

The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

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.

(archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Noun

(-)

A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.

* 1975 , Wakeman, John. 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 .

* Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper

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.

A clattering sound.

* 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.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.

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gallop

English

Noun

(en noun)

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

Verb

(en verb)

(Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.

The horse galloped past the finishing line.

To ride at a galloping pace.

* John Donne

Gallop lively down the western hill.

To cause to gallop.

to gallop a horse

To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.

To run very fast.

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(figurative) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

* John Locke

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.