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English Idioms :: hurrah for
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hura.html - {adj. phr.} Used with a name or pronoun to praise someone. * /Good for George! He won the 100-yard dash./ * /You got 100 on the test? Hurrah for you./ |
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English Idioms :: hurry up
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hura.html - {v. phr.} To rush (an emphatic form of hurry). * /Hurry up or we'll miss our plane./ |
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English Idioms :: hurt
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hura.html - See: CRY BEFORE ONE IS HURT or HOLLER BEFORE ONE IS HURT. |
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Traditional English :: hurdle
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hura.html - n. & v. --n. 1 Athletics a each of a series of light frames to be cleared by athletes in a race. b (in pl.) a hurdle-race.
2 an obstacle or difficulty.
3 a portable rectangular frame strengthened with withes or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence etc.
4 hist. a frame on which traitors were dragged to execution. --v. 1 Athletics a intr. run in a hurdle-race. b tr. clear (a hurdle).
2 tr. fence off etc. with hurdles.
3 tr. overcome (a difficulty). [OE hyrdel f. Gmc] |
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Traditional English :: hurdler
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hura.html - n.
1 Athletics a person who runs in hurdle-races.
2 a person who makes hurdles. |
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Traditional English :: hurdy-gurdy
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hura.html - n. (pl. -ies) 1 a musical instrument with a droning sound, played by turning a handle, esp. one with a rosined wheel turned by the right hand to sound the drone-strings, and keys played by the left hand. 2 colloq. a barrel-organ. [prob. imit.] |
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