DCHP-1 Online
hurdle [cf. hurley, an Irish stick-and-ball game] Obs. 
n. the stick used in playing Indian lacrosse or baggataway; also, the game itself.
See also: baggataway
- 1832 (1923) For an instant a dense group collected around the ball, which had been driven to within a hundred yards of the gate, and fifty hurdles were crossed in their endeavors to secure it, when the warrior, who formed the solitary exception to the multitude . . . came rapidly up to the spot where the well-affected struggle was maintained. At his approach the hurdles of the other players were withdrawn, when at a single blow of his powerful arm, the ball was seen flying into the air. . . .
- 1905 (1954) After . . . nearly 2,000 miles of journeying, via Île-à-la-Crosse, Athabaska and Peace river (the first named an Indian resort for the favourite "hurdle" game), we reached Fort McLeod at the north end of McLeod's lake in New Caledonia, on the 10th of October.
- 1832 (1923) For an instant a dense group collected around the ball, which had been driven to within a hundred yards of the gate, and fifty hurdles were crossed in their endeavors to secure it, when the warrior, who formed the solitary exception to the multitude . . . came rapidly up to the spot where the well-affected struggle was maintained. At his approach the hurdles of the other players were withdrawn, when at a single blow of his powerful arm, the ball was seen flying into the air. . . .