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 Hur·dle n.
 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.
 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 race
      n : a footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of
          hurdles [syn: hurdles, hurdling]