| 单词 | hurdle-race |
| 释义 | > as lemmashurdle-race hurdle-race n. a race in which the contestants have to jump over hurdles; so hurdle racer, hurdle racing, hurdle handicap. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing steeplechasing1816 hurdle-race1836 steeplechase1864 hurdle1887 hurdling1897 1836 W. Dyott Diary 23 Mar. (1907) II. 228 Lichfield March races;..a hurdle race, a new-fashioned sport much in vogue with the fox-hunters. 1840–70 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports (ed. 3) §1282 Hurdle racing came into vogue above fifty years ago... We by no means assert that hurdle leaping, as an organised sport, had not been before practised. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiv. 54 Lord Glenlivat..broke his neck at a hurdle-race. 1897 M. H. Hayes Points of Horse (ed. 2) xxv. 247 She [a mare] showed herself to be the best chaser and hurdle-racer of her time. < as lemmas |
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