1. A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
2. In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution. Bacon.
3. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race. Hurdle race, a race in which artificial barriers in the form of hurdles, fences, etc., must be leaped.
HURDLE
Hur"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurdleed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurdleing.]
Defn: To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles. Milton.
HURDLEWORK
Hur"dle*work`, n.
Defn: Work after manner of a hurdle.
HURDS
Hurds, n. Etym: [See Hards.]
Defn: The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
HURDY-GURDY
Hur"dy-gur`dy, n. Etym: [Prob. of imitative origin.]