hurdle
see also: Hurdle
Pronunciation Noun
Hurdle
Proper noun
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see also: Hurdle
Pronunciation Noun
hurdle (plural hurdles)
- An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
- He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.
A perceived obstacle. - 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.
- (UK, obsolete) A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
- 1550, Francis Bacon, A Preparation Toward the Union of Laws, in The Works of Francis Bacon, edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, London: Longman, Green & Co., Vol. VII, p. 735,
- In treason, the corporal punishment is by drawing on hurdle from the place of the prison to the place of execution, and by hanging and being cut down alive, bowelling, and quartering: and in women by burning.
- 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, pp. 250-51,
- Behind flock'd wrangling up a piteous crew, / Greeted of none, disfeatur'd and forlorn— / Cowards, who were in sloughs interr'd alive: / And round them still the wattled hurdles hung / Wherewith they stamp'd them down, and trod them deep, / To hide their shameful memory from men.
- 1550, Francis Bacon, A Preparation Toward the Union of Laws, in The Works of Francis Bacon, edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, London: Longman, Green & Co., Vol. VII, p. 735,
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
- French: haie
- German: Hürde
- Italian: ostacolo
- Portuguese: obstáculo, barreira
- Russian: препя́тствие
- Spanish: valla
- French: obstacle, barrière
- German: Hindernis, Hürde
- Italian: ostacolo, barriera
- Russian: препя́тствие
- Spanish: valla
- French: claie
- Russian: плете́нь
hurdle (hurdles, present participle hurdling; past and past participle hurdled)
- To jump over something while running.
- He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.
- To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
- To overcome an obstacle.
- To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
- Spanish: vallar
hurdle (plural hurdles)
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle
hurdle (hurdles, present participle hurdling; past and past participle hurdled)
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle
Hurdle
Proper noun
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