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

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
3. noun. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
4. transitive verb. To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
5. noun. the act of jumping over an obstacle

   Synonyms: vault

6. noun. a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
7. noun. an obstacle that you are expected to overcome

   "the last hurdle before graduation"

8. verb. jump a hurdle

Synonyms

vault

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hurdle:

hurled

Common word forms

hurdled, hurdler, hurdles, hurdling

Words from these letters

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