Definitions for hurdle

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hurdle hur·dle

Spelling: [hur-dl]

IPA: /ˈhɜr dl/

Hurdle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in hurdle (dehlru).

Definitions for hurdle

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. Chiefly British. a movable rectangular frame of interlaced twigs, crossed bars, or the like, as for a temporary fence.
6. a frame or sled on which criminals, especially traitors, were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

verb (used with object)

1. to leap over (a hurdle, barrier, fence, etc.), as in a race.
2. to master (a difficulty, problem, etc.); overcome.
3. to construct with hurdles; enclose with hurdles.

verb (used without object)

1. to leap over a hurdle or other barrier.

Origin of hurdle

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

Examples for hurdle

A race meeting, which included a hurdle race, was being held.

If the two companies can overcome that hurdle, they must then clear three others to secure the exemption they seek.

On the 16th his body was drawn and quartered and dragged through London on a hurdle.

He is at home in polo or hurdle racing, with the rifle or revolver.

No such thing as a good handicap, nor a hurdle race for a finish, without you.

As the recruitment process begins, the question of motivation could also prove to be a hurdle.

Fanny, also, nearly did for Harry Nesbitt, by riding a hurdle race.

Once I got over that hurdle, it was as if a huge weight had lifted and I was not scared anymore.

Still, assuming Kasich survives his 2014 reelection race, he easily clears the hurdle of having gotten stuff done.

In the meantime, just as the bill passed its first hurdle, snow flakes started to fall down on the Capitol.