Hurdles

Hurdles or Clayes, are made of Branches or Twigs interwoven together in the Figure of a long Square, about five or six Foot long, and three, or three and a half broad; the closer they are wovem, they are the better. They are for several Uses, as for covering Traverses and Lodgements, Caponeers, Coffers, &c. and are covered over with Earth to secure them from the artificial Fireworks of the Enemy, and fom the Stones which mught be thrown upon them; and likewise to lay upon marshy Ground, or to pass the Foss, especially when it is full of Mud or Slime.
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See their Form in the Figure.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

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