hurdle

Significado (Inglés)

1. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
2. An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
3. 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.
4. A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.

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obstáculo

Frecuencia

Con guión como

hurd‧le

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhɜːdl̩/

From Middle English hurdel, hirdel, herdel, hyrdel, from Old English hyrdel (“frame of intertwined twigs used as a temporary barrier”), diminutive of *hyrd, from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz, from Pre-Germanic *kr̥h₂tis, from Proto-Indo-European *kreh₂-. Cognate with Dutch horde, German Hürde.