hurdled

Verb

hurdle (third-person singular simple present hurdles, present participle hurdling, simple past and past participle hurdled)

1. To jump over something while running.
   • He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.
2. To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
3. To overcome an obstacle.
4. To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
   • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve
     In hurdled cotes amid the field secure1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
5. To jump over another piece without capturing it.
   • Kangaroo (KA): as G, but hurdles over any two units to land on the first square beyond the second unit (the two units need not be adjacent). […] Saltador (SA): can move without capturing to the same squares as an S, whenever either of the intermediate squares is occupied (by hurdling); can capture...2018 July, Stephen Emmerson, “A GLOSSARY OF FAIRY CHESS DEFINITIONS”, in BRITISH CHESS PROBLEM SOCIETY, pages 8, 10

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