...When sheep are fed on turnips, they are in general confined to aparticular portion of the field by nets or hurdles...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...The hurdles are madeof light swamp oak, iron bark, or gum, measuring seven feet long, withfive bars, so close together that a young lamb cannot creep through,and usually cost about 1s...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...We make canisses of it, that is to say, hurdles, which, in spring, serve for the rearing of silk-worms and, in autumn, for the drying of figs...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...When we have no glass houses at our disposal, we can see these little architectural refinements in the reeds of the hurdles, if we open them at the right season...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...“Collyers’ Hurdles...
H. G. Nicholls 「The Forest of Dean」
..." Then his men laid hurdles on his back, and the whole army crossed over; and that saying of his became afterwards a proverb...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 「Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic」
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