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hurdle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Hurdle \Hur"dle\, n. [OE. hurdel, hirdel, AS. hyrdel; akin to D. horde, OHG. hurt, G. h["u]rde a hurdle, fold, pen, Icel. hur? door, Goth. ha['u]rds, L. cratis wickerwork, hurdle, Gr. ?, Skr. k?t to spin, c?t to bind, connect. [root]16. Cf. Crate, Grate, n.]
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
--Bacon.-
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
Hurdle race, a race in which artificial barriers in the form of hurdles, fences, etc., must be leaped.
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, fold, pen;" Old Norse hurð, Gothic haurds "door"), from PIE *krtis (cognates: Latin cratis "hurdle, wickerwork," Greek kartalos "a kind of basket," kyrtos "fishing creel"), from root *kert- "to weave, twist together" (cognates: Sanskrit krt "to spin"). Sense of "barrier to jump in a race" is by 1822; figurative sense of "obstacle" is 1924.
1590s, "to build like a hurdle," from hurdle (n.). Sense of "to jump over" dates from 1880 (implied in hurdling). Related: Hurdled; hurdling. Hurdles as a type of race (originally horse race) with hurdles as obstacles is attested by 1836 (hurdle-race is from 1822).
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 land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. 4 (context UK obsolete English) A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution. 5 (lb en T-flapping) (misspelling of hurtle English) vb. 1 To jump over something while running. 2 To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles). 3 To overcome an obstacle. 4 To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles. 5 (lb en T-flapping) (misspelling of hurtle English)
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]
v. jump a hurdle
Wikipedia
A hurdle (UK English, limited US English) is a moveable section of light fence. In the United States, terms such as "panel", "pipe panel" or simply "fence section" are used to describe moveable sections of fencing intended for agricultural use and crowd control; "hurdle" refers primarily to fences used as jumping obstacles for steeplechasing with horses or human track and field competition.
Traditional hurdles were made from wattle, but modern designs for fencing are often made of metal. They are used for handling livestock, as decorative fencing, for steeplechasing and in the track and field event of hurdling.
Hurdle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Clint Hurdle (born 1957), American baseball player, coach and manager
- Gus Hurdle (born 1973), English footballer
- Kevin Hurdle (born 1976), Bermudian cricketer
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.