n. A movable frame made of interlaced twigs or sticks, or of bars, rods, or narrow boards, crossing each other.n. Specifically— A sledge or frame on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.n. In fortification, a collection of twigs or sticks interwoven closely and sustained by long stakes, made usually of a rectangular shape, 5 or 6 feet by 3½ feet, and serving to render works firm or to cover traverses and lodgments for the defense of workmen against fireworks or stones.n. In agriculture: A frame usually made of wood, but sometimes of iron, for the purpose of forming temporary fences. When a fence is to be formed of hurdles, they are put down end to end, and fastened to the ground and to one another.n. A space inclosed by hurdles: a fold.n. A kind of permanent mattress of willow or other branches, built on a river-bank and fastened down with short sticks, to prevent the wearing away of the bank by the current of the stream.n. In racing, a bar or frame placed across a race-course at a certain height, in semblance of a fence, to be cleared by the contesting men or horses.n. In hat-making, a grid or frame of wood or wire, in which a mass of felting-hair is placed to be bowed.To make, hedge, cover, or close with hurdles.To jump over a hurdle, as in a hurdle-race; hence, to jump over anything as if it were a hurdle.