different between barricade vs hurdle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French barricade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ???ke?d/

Noun

barricade (plural barricades)

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
   • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology

     Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

3. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
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Translations

See also

• barricade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)

1. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
2. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

Translations

Dutch

Alternative forms

• baricade (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.ri?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: bar?ri?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

barricade f (plural barricades or barricaden, diminutive barricadetje n)

1. A barricade. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

Derived terms

• barricaderen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: barrikade

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?i.kad/
• Homophones: barricadent, barricades

Etymology 1

barrique +? -ade

Noun

barricade f (plural barricades)

1. barricade

Derived terms

• barricader

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

barricade

1. first-person singular present indicative of barricader
2. third-person singular present indicative of barricader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of barricader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of barricader
5. second-person singular imperative of barricader

Further reading

• “barricade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hûr'd?l, IPA^(key): /?h??d?l/
• (US) enPR: hûr'd?l, IPA^(key): /?h?d?l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English hurdel, hirdel, herdel, hyrdel, from Old English hyrdel (“frame of intertwined twigs used as a temporary barrier”), diminutive of *hyrd, from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz, from Pre-Germanic *kr?h?tis, from Proto-Indo-European *kreh?-. Cognate with Dutch horde, German Hürde.

Noun

hurdle (plural hurdles)

1. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.

   He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.

3. A perceived obstacle.
4. 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.
5. (Britain, 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, [1]

     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, [2]

     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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (h?doru)

Translations

Verb

hurdle (third-person singular simple present hurdles, present participle hurdling, simple past and past participle hurdled)

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.

Translations

Further reading

• Hurdle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

hurdle (plural hurdles)

1. (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.

Verb

hurdle (third-person singular simple present hurdles, present participle hurdling, simple past and past participle hurdled)

1. (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.

Anagrams

• huldre, hurled