hurst

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/hɝst/
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/hɝst/ · /hɜːst/

Definition of hurst

13 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A wood or grove.
    “Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,”
    “‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’”
    “A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]”
    “A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.”
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noun

  1. A wood or grove.
    “Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,”
    “‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’”
    “A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]”
    “A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.”

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  8. A place in the United States:
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  11. A place in the United States:
  12. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.

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