hurdlings

Noun

hurdling (countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

1. A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
2. hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
   • 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.1993, Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas, page 51