hurdle

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  1. noun Sports A light portable barrier over which competitors must leap in certain races.
  2. noun Sports A race in which a series of such barriers must be jumped without the competitors' breaking their stride.
  3. noun Sports A leaping step made off one foot as means of maximizing spring at the end of an approach, as to a dive.
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  1. Middle English hurdel, portable panel for temporary fences, from Old English hyrdel.

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  1. from Middle English hurdel, hyrdel, plural hurdles, herdles, from Anglo-Saxon hyrdel, a hurdle, diminutive of *hord or *hyrd, Middle English hurde (see hurde) = Dutch horde (see hoard) = Old High German hurt, Middle High German hurt, German hürde, a hurdle, a door (i. e. of wickerwork), = Icelandic hurdh, a hurdle, = Gothic (Moesogothic) haurds, a door, = Latin crates, cratis, a hurdle (later ult. English crate, grate, q. v.: see also cradle and griddle), = Greek κύρτη, κύρτος, a fishing-basket, weel, κυρτία, wickerwork, a wicker shield (cf. κάρταλλος, a (woven) basket): cf. Sanskrit √ kart, spin, chart, bind, connect.
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