(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
1993, Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings, covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.
