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hurdling ‎(countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

(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.

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