Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - hurdle
Hurdle
hurdle
n. & v. --n. 1 Athletics a each of a series of light frames to be cleared by athletes in a race. b (in pl.) a hurdle-race. 2 an obstacle or difficulty. 3 a portable rectangular frame strengthened with withes or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence etc. 4 hist. a frame on which traitors were dragged to execution. --v. 1 Athletics a intr. run in a hurdle-race. b tr. clear (a hurdle). 2 tr. fence off etc. with hurdles. 3 tr. overcome (a difficulty). Etymology: OE hyrdel f. Gmc
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English hurdel, from Old English hyrdel; akin to Old High German hurt ~, Latin cratis wickerwork, ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a portable panel usually of wattled withes and stakes used especially for enclosing land or livestock, a frame or sled formerly used in England for dragging traitors to execution, 2. an artificial barrier over which racers must leap, any of various track events in which a series of ~s must be surmounted, barrier, obstacle, II. transitive verb (~d; hurdling) Date: 1896 to leap over especially while running (as in a sporting competition), overcome, surmount, ~r noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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