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holt

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7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hɒlt/
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/hɒlt/ · /həʊlt/ · /hoʊlt/

Definition of holt

31 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
    “As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;”
    “[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.”
    “Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...”
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noun

  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
    “As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;”
    “[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.”
    “Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...”
  2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
    “Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A placename
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Etymology

From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European…

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From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.

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