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noun
1.
a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
2.
hurdles, (used with a singular verb) a race in which contestants must leap over a number of such barriers placed at specific intervals around the track. Compare high hurdles, low hurdles.
3.
any of various vertical barriers, as a hedge, low wall, or section of fence, over which horses must jump in certain types of turf races, as a steeplechase, but especially an artificial barrier.
4.
a difficult problem to be overcome; obstacle.
5.
EXPANDChiefly British. a movable rectangular frame of interlaced twigs, crossed bars, or the like, as for a temporary fence.
6.
COLLAPSEa frame or sled on which criminals, especially traitors, were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
verb (used with object)
7.
to leap over (a hurdle, barrier, fence, etc.), as in a race.
8.
to master (a difficulty, problem, etc.); overcome.
9.
to construct with hurdles; enclose with hurdles.
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verb (used without object)
10.
to leap over a hurdle or other barrier.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English hirdel, hurdel (noun), Old English hyrdel, equivalent to hyrd- + -el noun suffix; compare German Hürde hurdle; akin to Latin crātis hurdle, wickerwork, Greek kýrtos basket, cage, Sanskrit kṛt spin
before 900; Middle English hirdel, hurdel (noun), Old English hyrdel, equivalent to hyrd- + -el noun suffix; compare German Hürde hurdle; akin to Latin crātis hurdle, wickerwork, Greek kýrtos basket, cage, Sanskrit kṛt spin
Related forms
hur·dler, noun
un·hur·dled, adjective
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hurdle
O.E. hyrdel "frame of intertwined twigs used as a temporary barrier," dim. of hyrd "door," from P.Gmc. *khurdis (cf. Ger. Hürde "hurdle, fold, pen;" O.N. hurð, Goth. haurds "door"), from PIE *krtis (cf. L. cratis "hurdle, wickerwork," Gk. kartalos "a kind of basket," kyrtos "fishing creel"),
EXPANDfrom base *qrt- "to weave, twist together" (cf. Skt. krt "to spin"). Sense of "barrier to jump in a race" first recorded 1833; figurative sense of "obstacle" is 1924.
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