English Dictionary

hedgehog

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhɛd͡ʒ.hɒɡ/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(military) To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver. / To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog. / (transitive, intransitive) To curl up into a defensive ball.

日本語の意味

軍事行動として、ハリネズミバリケードを用い、防御戦術として利用すること。 / ハリネズミの針のような鋭い突起を配置する様子を表すこと。 / （他動詞および自動詞として）攻撃に対し、体を丸め防御姿勢を取ること。

During the retreat, the engineers had to hedgehog the bridge to halt the pursuing tanks.

撤退中、工兵たちは追撃してくる戦車を阻止するために橋にトゲのある対戦車障害物を配備しなければならなかった。

意味（1）

(military) To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.

Hedgehogging means — let us call a spade a spade — that we're were encircled: It's something that has been forced upon us, a predicament from which we ought to try to escape as fast as possible.

意味（2）

To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.

All around were styrofoam cups hedgehogged with butts, and the threebar electric heater was encrusted with bits of charcoaled tobacco and frazzled stands of hair where people had stooped down to spark up.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To curl up into a defensive ball.

You try for his head, but he's hedgehogged round now, elbows beside his ears and you can't get him.

hedgehogs （ present singular third-person ）

hedgehogging （ participle present ）

hedgehogged （ participle past ）

hedgehogged （ past ）