hurdlen.
/ˈhəːd(ə)l/ 1.
a. A portable rectangular frame, originally having horizontal bars interwoven or wattled with withes of hazel, willow, etc.: = wattle; but now often an open frame with light horizontal bars crossed by uprights, and strengthened by a diagonal bar, like a field gate: used chiefly to form temporary fences, sheep-pens, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hurdle
hurdlec725
flakec1330
grater1598
wattle1640
bara1642
tray1829
slat1883
flake-hurdle1890
c725 Corpus Gloss. 600 Cratem, flecta vel hyrþil.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 430 Þa forlet se wælhreowa casere ðone halgan lichaman uppon ðam isenan hyrdle.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 371/30 Crates, hyrdlas.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4788 Mid hor owe honde hii rerede verst an chirche Of herdles and of ȝerden as hii couþe wurche.
1462 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 281 He schall mak yow as many hyrdyllys as ye ned for yowyr fold.
1521 in Archaeologia (1834) 25 437 Pd. to the said Thomas for v dussen hardylls vjs. viijd.
1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 75 Ye shal dry them on hurdels of Oziars made like Lettis windowes.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 327 Hurdles, made in form of Gates, either of spleeted Timber or of Hazle Rods..either serve for gates in Enclosures or to make Sheepfolds or the like.
1745 R. Pococke Trav. II. i. ix. 129 The houses of the village..are made of hurdles, covered with clay.
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 263 Hurdles..six feet long, three and a half feet high, made of hazel-rods closely-wreathed, the upright rods called sails and the long rods wreaths.
1880 H. Stewart Shepherd's Man. 27 As the crop is eaten, the line of hurdles is moved along the field until the whole is consumed.
b. A frame of this kind used as a barrier to be cleared in races. Also plural: an athletic event consisting of a hurdle-race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track > parts of
run-in1799
quarter-stretch1830
home run1833
hurdle1833
back stretch1839
home stretch1841
straight1846
last lap1848
straightaway1878
home straight1880
stretch1895
back-straight1905
the wall1974
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing
steeplechasing1816
hurdle-race1836
steeplechase1864
hurdle1887
hurdling1897
1833 Sporting Mag. Dec. Hurdle sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, for horses not thorough-bred.
1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) §1284 The hurdles were stout black wattles, which will bend but not break; and were placed, the first near the distance post [etc.].
1887 T. B. Reed Fifth Form St. Dominic's i. 8 He is certain..to win the mile and the ‘hurdles’ at the Athletic Sports.
1897 Isis (Oxf.) 13 Nov. 63/1 Three events..: hundred yards, broad jump, and hurdles.
1905 Athlete Aug. 80/1 R. S. Stromach retained his title in the hurdles.
1930 Daily Express 8 Sept. 9/5 In the 80 metres hurdles.
1948 Daily Tel. 17 May 3/6 Miss M. Gardner, who clocked 11·6 sec for the 80-metres hurdles.
1973 Country Life 13 Sept. 693/2 The first peak for the British crowd was the 400 metres hurdles.
c. A kind of frame or sledge on which traitors used to be drawn through the streets to execution.This remained part of the legal punishment for high treason till 1870, when it was abolished by Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23 §31.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people > to execution
hurdle1412
sled1570
sledge1651
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (Digby 230) v. xxxvi Egistus was..dempt..On an hirdel naked to be drawe Thoruȝoute þe toun..And aftir ful hiȝe enhonged on a tree.
1450 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 115 To do drawe the body of a grete traytour..uppon an hurdull by the stretes of your Citee of London.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xi. i. 222 Drawing from the prison to the place of execution vpon an hardle or sled.
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iii. sig. E4 Let false Awdley Be drawne vpon an hurdle from the New-gate To Tower-hill.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. vi. 92 Usually (by connivance, at length ripened by humanity into law) a sledge or hurdle is allowed to preserve the offender from the extreme torment of being dragged on the ground or pavement.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. i. 16 Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. ii. 39 He'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged.
d. Fortification, etc. A wattled hurdle, used to lay upon marshy ground or across a ditch to provide a firm passage, etc., or, often covered with earth, to stop up a breach, to strengthen a battery, or to protect a work or position from the enemy's fire.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > wattled frame for defence or access
hurdlea1400
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 6104 [6088] Of hirdles & brigges hy maden flores And so hy wenten in to þe mores.
1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 15 He laid certayne plaunckes and hurdelles over the diches.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxiv. 137 The trestelles muste be garnissed with hirdellis for to make the aleies and weies to go ouere.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 96v Theye made a greate trenshe..coueringe the same with hurdels..the dogge tyger chaunsed fyrste into this pitfaul.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Hurdles, or Clays, in Fortification, are made of..Twigs of Willows, or Osiers, being 5 or 6 Foot high, and from 3 to 4 Foot broad. They are interwoven very close together, and usually laden with Earth,..to render Batteries firm.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 138/1 Hurdles are constructed in nearly the same manner as gabions, excepting that the picquets are placed in a straight line instead of a circle.
e. figurative. An obstacle or difficulty.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
hinderc1200
withsetting1340
obstaclec1385
traversea1393
mara1400
bayc1440
stoppagec1450
barrace1480
blocka1500
objecta1500
clog1526
stumbling-stone1526
bar1530
(to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548
stumbling-stock1548
hindrance1576
a log in one's way1579
crossbar1582
log1589
rub1589
threshold1600
scotch1601
dam1602
remora1604
obex1611
obstructiona1616
stumbling-blocka1616
fence1639
affront1642
retardance1645
stick1645
balk1660
obstruent1669
blockade1683
sprun1684
spoke1689
cross cause1696
uncomplaisance1707
barrier1712
obstruct1747
dike1770
abatis1808
underbrush1888
bunker1900
bump1909
sprag1914
hurdle1924
headwind1927
mudhole1933
monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin ii. 34 Their slim keels like horses bounded free To leap the foamy hurdles of the sea.
1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 28 O'er lingual hurdles coax your tongues to prance.
1966 Listener 6 Jan. 13/2 Family planning has some major..hurdles to overcome.
1969 Radio Times 24 July 23/5 Andrew Cooper describes the hurdles to be cleared by business men eager to win the prize of a seat on the Board of Directors.
1971 Nature 11 June 346/2 The shuttle's hardest hurdle, however, is in the Senate.
2. Applied to various things formed, like a hurdle, of crossing bars or grating.† a. A sieve, strainer, or colander.† b. Applied to a snowshoe.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer
strainer1326
renge?1362
canvasc1386
strain1432
searcec1440
sye1468
runnera1475
ranger1485
renger1510
searce-net1526
colatory?1541
range1542
sight1559
sythe1568
colature1577
tamis1601
sile-dish1668
hurdle1725
kenting1725
stamin1725
tammy1769
tamin1847
vat-neta1884
chinois1937
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Paste To be drained upon a Hurdle or Grate, and passed through the Hair-Sieve.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cedre To be taken out, and drain'd in a Cullender or Hurdle.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > for specific purpose > snow shoe
snow-shoe1674
hurdle1726
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 39/1 Those who walk over the Snow..wear upon their Feet hurdles made of Twigs and small Ropes.., the broadness of which keeps them from sinking in the Snow.
c. Hat-making. ‘A grid of wood or wire, on which a bunch of felting hair is laid for bowing’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > equipment > other
foot stock1565
stamper1688
wool-bow1688
bason1728
stall-board1745
satin wire1834
hurdle1837
planking machine1875
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 293 [article Hatter] When the workman is bowing he works at a ‘hurdle’, or thin boarded bench with several longitudinal chinks to suffer the dust, &c. to pass through.
d. Salt-making. (See quot. 1886.)
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1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Hurdle, salt-making term. A table or platform of wood planks running along each side of the pans, for the purpose of receiving the salt when drawn out of the pans.
e. The stick used in the game of lacrosse.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > lacrosse > [noun] > stick
hurl1791
racket1791
crosse1867
lacrosse stick1884
hurdle1887
1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 258 (Lacrosse) The ‘stick’, or ‘hurdle’,..consists of a piece of white ash.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
hurdle-fence n.
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1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xx. xi. 160 The hurdle fences of oysiers.
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 160 A moveable hurdle-fence.
1890 Daily News 8 Jan. 3/6 The Thames *Hurdle Handicap.
hurdle-maker n.
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1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 137 A compleat Wheel right, Waggon builder, and Plow and Hurdle maker.
1894 Times 11 Sept. 16/7 Wire netting has taken the place of sheep hurdles. I have not made a hurdle for quite 15 years, and..the race of hurdlemakers is as extinct as the race of sawyers.
hurdle-rod n.
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1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. 1605 The bricks, hurdle-rods and earth say..‘Here dwell vanity and poverty’.
hurdle-stake n.
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1833 Sporting Mag. Dec. Hurdle sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, for horses not thorough-bred.
hurdle-wall n.
hurdle-work n.
b. (In sense 1b.)
hurdle-jumping n.
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1883 Standard 12 Feb. 2/6 Prudhomme has taken kindly to hurdle jumping.
hurdle-leaping n.
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1840–70 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports (ed. 3) §1282 Hurdle racing came into vogue above fifty years ago... We by no means assert that hurdle leaping, as an organised sport, had not been before practised.
c. (In sense 1d.)
hurdle-revetment n.
hurdle-work n.
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1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 118 To form a species of hurdle-work above the fascines.
1866 Reader 22 Sept. 307 Huts..having a framework of piles and stakes, with wattle or hurdle~work of small branches woven between the upright piles.
d.
hurdle-surrounded adj.
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1887 H. R. Haweis Light of Ages i. 10 Hindu villages with their hurdle-surrounded houses.
e.
hurdle-wise adv.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hourdé,..couered with hurdles, or with reed wrought hurdle-wise.
C2.
hurdle-house n. a wattle house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction
thatch-house1521
slate house1554
thack housec1600
frame house1627
log-house1662
straw1665
thatch1693
tin-house1798
fog house1799
leaf house1811
rock house1818
black house1819
blockhouse1821
white house1824
slab-and-bark house1826
brown house1845
brush house1854
soddy1877
hurdle-housea1879
bottle house1913
stucco1922
prefab1942
Portal house1944
Airey1945
yali1962
a1879 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) 445 London..is still [9th c.] the old town of hurdle-houses and whitewash.
hurdle-man n. (a) a man who looks after hurdled sheep or lambs (see quot. 1880); (b) a man who runs in hurdle-races.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > type of
sheep-reeve1450
page1590
shepherdling1605
under-shepherda1640
lad1717
lamber1809
mayoral1879
hurdle-man1880
motherer1890
rouser1896
rousie1906
boundary-keeper1933
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing > hurdler or steeplechaser
hurdle-man1880
hurdler1884
steeplechaser1887
1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland 459 ‘Toothless, ragged, old grannies’, muttered the hurdleman.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 May 3/1 H. W. Batger is our hurdle man, and he won the 120 yards hurdle championship first in 1888.
hurdle-race n. a race in which the contestants have to jump over hurdles; so hurdle racer, hurdle racing, hurdle handicap.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing
steeplechasing1816
hurdle-race1836
steeplechase1864
hurdle1887
hurdling1897
1836 W. Dyott Diary 23 Mar. (1907) II. 228 Lichfield March races;..a hurdle race, a new-fashioned sport much in vogue with the fox-hunters.
1840–70 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports (ed. 3) §1282 Hurdle racing came into vogue above fifty years ago... We by no means assert that hurdle leaping, as an organised sport, had not been before practised.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiv. 54 Lord Glenlivat..broke his neck at a hurdle-race.
1897 M. H. Hayes Points of Horse (ed. 2) xxv. 247 She [a mare] showed herself to be the best chaser and hurdle-racer of her time.
hurdle-wood n. wood used for wattling or making hurdles.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for fencing
wattling1622
hurdle-wood1649
paling1664
withering1852
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxii. 132 In foure or five yeares..the Willow rises to gallant Hurdle-wood.
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hurdlev.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with other materials > build or construct with other materials [verb (transitive)] > construct of wattle-work
wattle1377
hurdle1598
raddle1719
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To make grater-wise, to make like a hurdle, to hurdle.
2. To enclose or mark off with hurdles. Also with out, up, round.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with hurdles
hurdle1632
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > shut up (a place) > with a barrier, fence, etc.
hedgea1425
stakea1500
to rail offc1500
stake1598
chain1603
rope1621
fence1767
hurdle1770–4
barrier1776
traverse1828
ward1842
stone1889
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of > with hurdles
hurdle1770–4
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To hurdle, make vp, hedge, close with hurdles.
1770–4 A. Young in A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) III. 145 They are usually hurdled off in the same manner as turnips.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 107 A field of rape, hurdled out.
1894 Times 6 Mar. 4/1 To hurdle off a fresh portion [of meadow] for the ewes every day.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry ix. 42 A yet worse Contrivance it was, to Till Land with a Hurdle made of Vine Twigs [Virg. Georg. i. 95 Vimineasque trahit crates]..This Harrowing and Hurdling.
4. intransitive. To run a hurdle-race; to jump over an obstacle, as in a hurdle-race. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > race on foot [verb (intransitive)] > types of foot racing
steeplechase1883
hurdle1896
marathon1920
1896 G. Ade Artie vii. 60 Artie did not know the tune or the words, so he merely whistled it on speculation, and when he came to the doubtful parts he hurdled.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xv. 256 He hurdled aboard this True American steamer as soon as he hit New York.
1928 Daily Mail 31 July 11/5 When Lord Burghley hurdled easily to victory.
1955 Times 13 Aug. 4/2 Higham hurdled with great élan.
Derivatives
ˈhurdling n. also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > harrowing
occation?1440
tining1766
tine1776
planking1814
bush-harrowing1834
hurdling1897
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing
steeplechasing1816
hurdle-race1836
steeplechase1864
hurdle1887
hurdling1897
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 52/2 Few good sprinters will take to hurdling, as there is little doubt that the mechanical and artificial action necessary in hurdling interferes with speed on the flat.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 53/1 Hurdling and long jumping ability often go together.
1912 E. H. Ryle Athletics 19 ‘Field events’ (i.e., long-, high- and pole-jumping, weight-putting, hammer- and discus-throwing, and hurdling).
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