hurde 
hurdet, [ME. : see hurdle.] Same as hurdle. 
The castel become on a fyr al 
Fro the tour to the outermeste wal, 
Her houses brende and her hurilys. 
Richard Coer ile Lion, 1. 6125. 
hurdelt, An obsolete spelling of hurdle. 
hurdent (her'dn), a. and . [A var. of harden?.] 
Same as harden'*. Nares. 
Thou shalt lie in hurden sheets, 
Upon a fresh straw bed. 
King Alfred and the Shepherd. 
hurdicet, [ME., also hurdace, hurdas; < OF. 
Iturdeis (ML. hurdicium).] Same as hurdle, (b). 
Pyghte payvese one porte, payntede scheldes, 
One hyndire hurdace one highte helmede knyghtez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3627. 
liurdicedt, a. [ME. hurdeysed; < hurdiee + -e<Z 2 .] 
Protected or fenced with a hurdiee. 
Foure were mene, and the flfthe was gret and high, and 
well hurdeysed a-boute with-ynne and with-oute. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ill 604. 
hurdles (hur'diz), . pi. [Origin obscure.] The 
loins; the crupper; the buttocks. [North. Eng. 
and Scotch.] 
His gawcie tail, wi' upward curl, 
Hung owre his hurdies wi' a swirl. 
Burns, Twa Dogs. 
hurdle (her'dl), )i. [< ME. hurdel, hyrdel, pi. 
hurdles, herdles, < AS. hyrdel, a hurdle, dim. of 
*hord or "hyrd, ME. hurde (see hurde) = D. 
horde (see hoard?) = OHG. hurt, MHG. hurt, 
Q. hurde, a hurdle, a door (i. e. of wickerwork), 
= Icel. hurdh, a hurdle, = Goth, haurds, a door, 
= L. crates, cratis, a hurdle (> ult. E. crate, 
grate"*, q. v. : see also cradle and griddle), = Gr. 
n'vpTrj, Kvprof, a fishing-basket, weel, Kvpria, wick- 
erwork, a wicker shield (cf. /cdpra/i/lof, a (woven) 
basket) : cf . Skt. -\/ kart, spin, chart, bind, con- 
nect.] A movable frame made of interlaced 
twigs or sticks, or of bars, rods, or narrow 
boards, crossing each other. 
Clusters of ripe grapes we pack 
In Vintage-time vpon the hurdles back. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
The houses of the village, which are built round the in- 
side of the Kane, are made of hurdles, covered with clay, 
and their fuel was dried cow dung. 
Pucocke, Description of the East, II. i. 129. 
Specifically (a) A sledge or frame on which criminals 
were formerly drawn to the place of execution. 
Let false Audley 
Be drawn upon an hurdle from the Newgate 
To Tower-hill. Ford, Perkin Warbeck, Hi. 1. 
A sledge hurdle is allowed, to preserve the offender from 
the extreme torment of being dragged on the ground or 
pavement. Blackstone, Com., IV. vi. 
(6) In fort., a collection of twigs or sticks interwoven 
closely and sustained by long stakes, made usually of a 
rectangular shape, 5 or 6 feet by SJ fee^ and serving to 
render works firm or to cover traverses and lodgments for 
the defense of workmen against fireworks or stones. 
They had made Treuches in the Ground three Foot 
deep, covering them with Twigs and Hurdles, where the 
English Horsemen were to pass. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 107. 
(c) In agri. : (1) A frame usually made of wood, but some- 
times 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. 
Straight they clap a hurdle for a gate 
(In steed of hinges hanged on a With), 
Which with a sleight both shuts and openeth. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 
He has put the gray suddenly and quite close to a hur- 
dle-tence, that nobody but such a man would face. 
Dr. J. Broion, John Leech. 
(2) A space inclosed by hurdles ; a fold. [Local.] (d) 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, (e) 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. (/) In hat- 
making, a grid or frame of wood or wire, in which a mass 
of felting-hair is placed to be bowed. 
hurdle (her'dl), v. t.; pret. and pp. hurdled, ppr. 
hurdling. [< hurdle, n.~\ To make, hedge, cover, 
or close with hurdles. 
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve 
In hurdled cotes amid the field secure. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 186. 
hurdleman (her'dl -man), n. ; pi. hurdlemen 
(-men). A man in charge of a hurdle or fold; 
specifically, a keeper of new-born lambs. [Aus- 
tralia.] 
"Toothless, ragged old grannies," muttered the hurdle- 
man. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 260. 
hurdle-race (her'dl-ras), . A race in which 
the contestants (men or horses) are required 
to jump over hurdles or similar obstacles. 
hurds (herdz), n. Same as hards. 
hurdy-gurdy (her'di-ger'di), n. [A riming for- 
mula, appar. in imitative description of the sound 
of the instrument. Cf. hirdy-tjirdy,] 1. A mu- 
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sical instrument shaped somewhat like a lute, 
having four or more strings, two of which are 
tuned a fifth apart for the production of a drone- 
bass, and the other two in unison, but so ar- 
ranged that they can be shortened by pressing 
finger-keys connected with an apparatus of tan- 
gents not unlike that of the clavichord. Addi- 
tional strings, when present, are intended to reinforce the 
tone by sympathetic vibration. The strings are sounded 
by the revolution against them of a rosined wheel turned 
by a crank for the left hand. The keys are played by the 
right hand. The hurdy-gurdy is a rustic instrument, its 
tone being harsh and its artistic manipulation exceedingly 
limited. It is known to have existed in the ninth century, 
and was fashionable for a time in the eighteenth century, 
but is now played only by street musicians. A large va- 
riety called the ttrganittrmn was intended for two per- 
formers, one of whom simply turned the wheel. Other 
names are lira rustica, vielle, rota, and bauernleier. 
The Italian boy delights all the ears of those who hear 
with his hurdy-gurdy. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 54. 
Shall we debase the soul by liking things that can be 
ground out by hurdy-gurdies? 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 961. 
2. In California, a wheel moved by a jet of wa- 
ter issuing under pressure from a conical nozle, 
and striking open buckets on the circumference 
of the wheel ; an impact-wheel. The buckets were 
originally flat, but their shape has been modified in vari- 
ous ways, and materially improved. 
3. A crank or windlass used by halibut-fisher- 
men for hauling trawls in deep water where the 
strain is very heavy. It is rigged on one side of a 
dory ; one man turns the crank while another stands aft 
and takes in the trawl. 
hure 1 !, v. and it. A Middle English form of 
hire 1 . 
hure 2 t, [ME., < OF. hure, the hair of the 
head (of man or beast) (ML. hura, a cap).] 1. 
A cap. 
Ther set an old cherl in a blake hure. 
Polit. Songs (ed. Wright), p. 156. 
2. In her., the head of a boar, wolf, or bear, 
used as a bearing. 
Hureae (hu're-e), n.pl. [NL,.,<Hura + -ece.~\ A 
subtribe of plants of the natural order Euphor- 
biacea:, proposed by Muller and adopted by De 
Candolle in 1866, typified by the genus Hura. 
The same as the Hnridece, of Baillou, 1858. Not employed 
by Bentham and Hooker, the genus Hura being placed 
by them in the tribe Crotonece. See cut under Hura. 
hureaulite, huraulite (hu-ro'lit), n. [< Bu- 
reaux (see def.) + Gr. A/(tof, a stone.] A rare 
phosphate of manganese and iron, occurring 
in small monoclinic crystals of a yellowish- 
brown to red color at Hureaux, near Limoges, 
in France, and at Branchville in Connecticut. 
hureek (hu-rek'), n. [E. Ind.] A grass, Pas- 
palum scrobiculatum, said to render the milk of 
cows that feed upon it narcotic and drastic. 
burin (hu'rin), n. [< Hura, q. v., + -in 2 .] In 
chem., an acrid crystallizable substance ob- 
tained from the juice of Hura crepitans. 
hurkH, v. i. [< ME. hurken = D. Jmrken = MLG. 
hurken, crouch, squat. In mod. use confused 
with *huckle (cf. hurkle-bone, -bane, for huckle- 
bone, hurkle-backit for Imcklebacked), freq. of 
*huck (= LG. huken), crouch : see huckle, huckle- 
bone, hucklebacfced, huckster.] To crouch. 
hurk 2 t, [< OF. hurque, urque, orque, var. of 
hulque, hulkc, etc.: see hulk 1 ."] A sort of sailing 
vessel. 
Vurchio, a hulke, a hurk, a crayer, a lyter, or whirree or 
such vessel of burthen. Florio, 
hurkara (her-kar'a), n. [Also hircarrah, hur- 
currah, hurlcaru, Hind, harkara, messenger, cou- 
rier, scout, < har, every, + Tear, work, business.] 
In India, a native messenger; a courier; a scout. 
A Hircarrah came up and delivered him a letter from 
Colonel Baillie. Maj.-Oen. Sir T. Munro, in Gleig, I. 26. 
A large force of Mahrattas . . . advanced as far as Sun- 
dra Col when first descried by their Hurcurrahs. 
Unpublished, Records of Government for 1748-1767 (ed. 
[Long). 
hurkle (hur'kl), . i. ; pret. and pp. hurkled, 
ppr. hurkling. [< ME. hurklen; freq. of hurk 1 .'] 
To crouch; squat; cower; stoop; nestle. [Ob- 
solete or Scotch.] 
The hyjest hylle that hurl-led on erthe. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 408. 
hurl 1 (herl), v. [< ME. hurlen, rarely horlen, 
hourlen, a contr. form of, and used interchange- 
ably with, hurtlen, dash against, strike forcibly, 
jostle, hurtle, intr. fall or rush violently: see 
hurtle. Cf. 7jrf 2 .] I. trans. If. To throw; fling; 
toss: without the idea of violent or impetuous 
motion. 
A heavenly veil she hurls 
On her white shoulders. Chapman, Iliad, xiv. 150. 
hurlbat 
The Women make two kinds of Meale of certaiue Rootes, 
which they vse in stead of Bread, which they doe not put, 
but hurle, into their mouthes without losse. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 837. 
2. To throw with violence ; send whirling or 
whizzing through the air ; fling withgreatforce. 
I saw him wrestle with the great Dutchman, and hurl 
him. Beau, and Ft., Knight of Burning Pestle, iit 2. 
To wield the Sword, and hurl the pointed Spear ; 
To stop or turn the Steed in full Career. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
3f. To di-ag with violence. 
To be hurlet with horses vpon hard stones, 
And drawen as a dog & to dethe broght. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 1969. 
4. Figuratively, to emit or utter with vehe- 
mence. 
He hurles out vowes. and Neptune oft doth blesse. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. iii. 32. 
Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me. 
And hurl the name of husband in my face ? 
Shak.,C. of E., 11. 2. 
Hurling defiance toward the vault of heaven. 
Milton, P. L., L 669. 
II. intrans. 1. To throw; fling; discharge a 
missile. [Obsolete or rare.] 
If he ... hurl at him by laying of wait. Num. xxxv. 20. 
2f. To rush. 
Then hurlet into howses all the hed ktiightes. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), t 1S360. 
3f. To fall or strike with violence. 
Ho keppit the kyng, kest hym to ground, 
Till his head with the hard yerthe hurlit full sore. 
So faght that freike with hur fyne strenght. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 10888. 
4. To play at the game of hurling. 
About the year 1775, the hurling to the goals was fre- 
quently played by parties of Irishmen, in the fields at the 
back of the British Museum. 
. Carew, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 167. 
In hurling to the country, " two or three or more par- 
ishes agree to hurl against two or three other parishes." 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 167. 
hurl 1 (herl), w. [< TzarA, .] 1. The act of throw- 
ing with violence. 
Mountain on mountain thrown 
With threatening hurl. 
Congreve, Taking of Namur. 
2f. Tumult ; riot ; commotion. 
After this Imrle the king was fain to flee. 
Mir. for Mags., p. 358. 
3. A scolding. [Scotch.] 
She ga' me sic a hurl I never gat the like o't. 
H. Blyd's Contract, p. 6. 
hurl 2 (herl), v. [A var. of whirl, prob. due to 
confusion with hurl 1 , throw: see hurl 1 and 
whirl. Cf. comp. hur/bat, hurlblast, etc.] I. 
trans. If. To whirl; turn round rapidly. 2t. 
To turn ; twist. 
He himself had hurled or crooked feet. Fuller. 
3. To wheel ; convey by means of a wheeled 
vehicle. [Scotch.] 
Sweet Fanny of Timmol ! when first you came in 
To the close little carriage in which I was hurl'd, 
I thought to myself, if it were not a sin, 
I could teach you the prettiest tricks in the world. 
Moore, Fanny of Timmol. 
II. intrans. 1. To whirl; turn rapidly; rush 
or dash. [Bare.] 
They are men without al order in the field, 
For they runne hurling on heapes. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 239. 
And Lancelot bode a little, till he saw 
Which were the weaker ; then he hurl'd into it 
Against the stronger. Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2. To be wheeled or conveyed in a wheeled ve- 
hicle. [Scotch.] 
If on a beastie I can speel, 
Or hurl in a cartie. Burns. 
hurl 2 (herl), n. [< ME. hurle, a whirlpool; < 
hurl 2 , v.~\ If. A whirlpool; whirling water. 
The wawis of the wild see apone the wallis betes ; 
The pure populand hurle passis it umby. 
King Alexander, p. 40. 
2. Conveyance in a wheeled vehicle ; a drive. 
[Scotch.] 
What if a frien' hire a chaise, and gie me a hurl, am I 
to pay the hire? Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, I. 92. 
hurl 3 (herl), n. [E. dial., contr. of hurdle: cf. 
furl, contr. offurdle.] A hurdle. 
hurl 4 (herl), H. Same as harl, 3. 
hurlbatt (herl'bat), . [A form of whirlbat, q. 
v. ; < hurl*, = whirl, + baft.] 1. A kind of club 
or cudgel, so called because whirled around the 
head. It does not appear that such a weapon 
was thrown. 
Hurleuiits having pikes of yron in the end, aclides. 
Withals, Diet. (ed. 1608X p. 317. 
