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hurdle

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. 2 (senseid en perceived obstacle)A perceived obstacle. 3 A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hyrdel "frame of intertwined twigs used as a temporary barrier," diminutive of hyrd "door," from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz "wickerwork frame, hurdle" (cognates: Old Saxon hurth "plaiting, netting," Dutch horde "wickerwork," German Hürde "hurdle, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races an obstacle that you are expected to overcome; "the last hurdle before graduation" the act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: vault ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurdle \Hur"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurdleed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurdleing .] To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles. --Milton.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hurdle rate COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ BHis biggest hurdle , however, may come when he applies for a job. ▪ Making the correct change was a big hurdle for my father. ▪ Scientists are beginning to argue ...

Usage examples of hurdle.

It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool, and during this time Neb and Pencroft, guided by Cyrus Harding, brought, on a hurdle made of interlaced branches, loads of carbonate of lime and common stones, which were very abundant, to the north of the lake.

A few minutes after them, Cyrus Harding, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett, dragging the hurdle, went towards the vein of coals, where those shistose pyrites abound which are met with in the most recent transition soil, and of which Harding had already found a specimen.

He held a gloved hand out to the side, his knees rising waist-high before he again hurdled thin air.

Saturday afternoon in January, when the hurdler I was riding tripped over the flight of hurdles nearest to the grandstand and flung me off onto my head.

Will Skeat edged down the bank where a dozen men were stack- ing the hurdles.

Undoubtedly, significant theoretical progress will continue, but will it be sufficient to overcome present hurdles and yield definitive, experimentally testable predictions?

As much as she hated to admit it, her biggest hurdle would be going inside the ambulance to check things out for herself.

The way Mick saw it, if he could convince Brewster to take him on as an apprentice, then he would have a sponsor, and that would get him over the first hurdle.

News that the trial had taken place got around, and I heard that I had chosen the time of the Champion Hurdle so that I could keep the unfit state of Pease Pudding decently concealed.

In their rude hovels, of mud and hurdles, which confined the smoke and excluded the light, they promiscuously slept on the ground, perhaps on a sheep-skin, with their wives, their children, and their cattle.

Mikhail hurdled a waist-high log, gripping his shette more tightly, and saw Guntor staggering in circles, wrapped by a half dozen snakes.

Ford was concerned, when staph overcame that final hurdle, the post-antibiotic era would have arrived.

Lyle Johnson rushed over to the City Auditorium during a scene in which he did not appear and presented a silver cup to the winner of the Boy Scout Hurdle Contest--a stunt which Andy had approved, though Tertius Tully, the procurer of the other personal appearances, had fretted that the Boy Scouts and their doggone hurdling were nothing but Competition for the Show.

For this purpose they constructed a sort of grate or hurdle, consisting of twenty bars of Brazil wood, laid crosswise half a foot from each other, upon which the flesh of prisoners of war or of game was laid in pieces, and a thick smoke raised beneath from properly selected combustibles, which gave to the meat the vermil color and a delightful smell.

Mary warmed to her subject, describing in detail various Beltane fires she had hurdled.