Hurdles [noun]

Pike's head suddenly appeared above the hurdles, and he began inquiring after her health.

But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!

The dry winter wind still blew, but a screen of thatched hurdles erected in the eye of the blast kept its force away from her.

When sheep are fed on turnips, they are in general confined to a particular portion of the field by nets or hurdles.

Hurdles leaning against a hedge are often found to bear a good crop of snails.

There ought to be a law against riding masters being allowed to teach women to jump over hurdles.

When the carriage stopped by some hurdles he went down from the embankment and helped them to dismount.

Then one of our freshman girls made a brand-new record in the sixty-yard hurdles.

Another of the Arabian steeds carried the hurdles off victorious with his hind feet, but did not fall.

Dawson holds the local high-hurdles record at 19-1/4 sec., and Woolsey holds the low-hurdles record at 31 sec.