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A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
n.
A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
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A paling; a hurdle.
v. t.
To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
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An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
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A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
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The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
n. pl.
Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
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A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hurdle
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An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
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Work after manner of a hurdle.
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In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
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In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.
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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
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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.
imp. & p. p.
of Hurdle
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A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
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A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.
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A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
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