hurst
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Definition of hurst
13 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
-
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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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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20 playable · top: HURTS (8 pts)
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