hurdle
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hurdle englanniksi
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
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(senseid) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
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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.
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A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
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(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
1855, (w), ''(w)'', Part II, in ''The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867'', Oxford University Press, 1909, pp. 250-51, https://archive.org/details/cu31924013206499
- 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.
To compete in the and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
To overcome an obstacle.
To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
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