Crossword clues for hurdles
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n. a footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of hurdles [syn: hurdling, hurdle race]
Wikipedia
Hurdles are a form of rural crafts. They are lightweight portable fencing structures that are used to enclose (or 'fold') animals such as sheep (i.e.: a sheepfold). In England & Wales they have often been woven from ash tree, willow or hazel withies, and made windproof with wattle, and so called 'wattle hurdles'. There are also 'gate hurdles' that are made from split poles.
Category:Fences Category:Agriculture in the United Kingdom
Usage examples of "hurdles".
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.
I could actually have managed it, as he was as strong as he was willful, his diagonal crossing of the flight of hurdles harvested a barrage of curses from the other jockeys.
Notebook, however, set off downhill on firm going at a graceless rush, roller-coastered over the most distant hurdles, and only began to lose interest when he hit the sharply rising ground on the way back.
No dollar premiums to worry about, or other such hurdles set up by grasping governments.
Nevertheless, taking Iraq off the terrorism list--no matter how cynical the reasoning--removed a number of hurdles that would have hindered U.
I heard the clatter of the hurdles as the others rapped them, and basely hoped they had made stumbling, time-wasting landings.
The Man from Ironbark It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, The Open Steeplechase I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice, The Amateur Rider HIM going to ride for us!
Guinalle to a pen of rough hurdles set some distance from the other beasts, his curiosity rising.
Whittlesea gate, Clean galloping over the green, But four foot high the hurdles lie With a sunken ditch between.
Humber of Posset, County Durham, remained three months, ran twice unplaced in maiden hurdles, subsequently sold again, at Doncaster, being bought for 600 guineas by N.
Mars Edge, Staffs, remained eighteen months, ran in four maiden hurdles, five novice chases, all without being placed.
Upper Hurdles, which cut across the top of the Upper Meadow to the woods some two miles beyond.
The lowest step of the Lower Hurdles stretched out before her like a white chalk wall.
So Harn rode over the Lower Hurdles borne on the crest of his battle madness, seeing the field laid bare for a moment before him by lightning, shouting with the thunder.
For some reason, he was crossing the top of the middle field when his own riders came over the Lower Hurdles on top of him.