holt

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• Rhymes: -əʊlt

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes... -- Chaucer, Gen. Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll. 5-6

1. The lair of an animal, especially of a fox.

“holt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. “holt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Old past participle of the verb hal

holt

1. dead

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holt Template:n

1. hillock
2. (antiquated) wood

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

Common Germanic *hultam

holt Template:n

1. wood