different between hurdle vs hurdling

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

English

Noun

hurdling (countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

1. (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
2. hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
   • 1993, Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)

     It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings, covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.

Translations

Verb

hurdling

1. present participle of hurdle