Hurdle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.

   “He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.”

2. isim An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.

   “My last stop was an outdoor speech to a huge crowd of Ukrainians whom I urged to stay on the course of freedom and economic reform. Kiev was beautiful in the late spring sunshine, and I hoped its people could keep up the high spirits I had observed in the crowd. They still had many hurdles to clear.”

3. isim A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

   “The practice of folding sheep was general, and the purchase of hurdles was a regular charge in the shepherd's account.”

4. isim A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.

   “In treason, the corporal punishment is by drawing on hurdle from the place of the prison to the place of execution, and by hanging and being cut down alive, bowelling, and quartering: and in women by burning.”

5. isim A piece that is jumped over by a hopper piece.
6. fiil To jump over something while running.

   “He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.”

7. fiil To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
8. fiil To overcome an obstacle.
9. fiil To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.

   “Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve In hurdled cotes amid the field secure”

10. fiil To jump over another piece without capturing it.
11. isim Misspelling of hurtle.
12. fiil Misspelling of hurtle.
13. özel isim A surname.