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noun
- An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses jump in a race.
- A perceived obstacle.
- 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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 414.
- : The practice of folding sheep was general, and the purchase of hurdles was a regular charge in the shepherd's account.
- In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution. "Bacon.
Translations: - French: haie f (3)
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