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hurdle
hurdle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
- 3noun
An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
- 4transitive verb
To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
- 5noun
the act of jumping over an obstacle
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- 6noun
a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
- 7noun
an obstacle that you are expected to overcome
"the last hurdle before graduation"
- 8verb
jump a hurdle
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