different between hurdle vs hurkle

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

Alternative forms

• hurple, hirple, hurtle

Etymology

A word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Scots hirple (“to limp”) or Dutch hurken (“to squat”), plus the suffix -le. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)k?l

Verb

hurkle (third-person singular simple present hurkles, present participle hurkling, simple past and past participle hurkled)

1. (intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold
2. to cower
3. (of the limbs) to contract, to pull in

Scots

Etymology

Unknown. May come from Old Norse, possibly related to Dutch hurken (“to squat”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h?rkl], [h?rkl]

Verb

hurkle (third-person singular present hurkles, present participle hurklin, past hurkled, past participle hurkled)

1. to sit huddled in a crouched position either for warmth or secrecy, to draw oneself together like a crouching animal
2. to walk with the body in a crouching position

Derived terms

• hurklin (“hunchbacked, misshapen”)

Noun

hurkle (plural hurkles)

1. (anatomy) the upper part of the thigh, the hip

Derived terms

• hurkle-bane (“hip bone”)