horde.
a horde
Meaning & usage
a horde
a troop of boy scouts, comprising no more than 24 cubs
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from German Horde; attested from the early 17th century.
hurdle (obstacle used in races)
a gross sieve
any movable wattle screen or braided wooden lattice used for various purposes (as a wall, hurdle, shield, sieve or even raft)
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch horde, hurde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi, from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz; cognate with German Hürde, and closely related to English hurdle (which is a diminutive of the same root). The sense "hurdle" is a semantic loan from English hurdle.
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