hurdle

hurdle has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
• n.. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
• v. t.. To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
• n.. the act of jumping over an obstacle
• n.. a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
• n.. an obstacle that you are expected to overcome; "the last hurdle before graduation"
• v.. jump a hurdle