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hurdle
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)
- 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.
- (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.
- 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]
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)
- To jump over something while running.
- 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.
Translations
Further reading
- Hurdle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Noun
hurdle (plural hurdles)
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
Verb
hurdle (third-person singular simple present hurdles, present participle hurdling, simple past and past participle hurdled)
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
Anagrams
- huldre, hurled
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hurple
English
Etymology
From Scots hirple.
Noun
hurple (plural hurples)
- (Scotland) An impediment similar to a limp.
- After he sprained his ankle, he walked away with a hurple.
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