holt
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A small piece of woodland or a woody hill
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...
The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by…
A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
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A placename
The neighborhood
- neighborfirth
- neighborgrove
- neighborhurst
- neighborshaw
- neighborthicket
- neighbortree
- neighborwald
- neighborweald
- neighborwold
- neighborwood
- neighborwoods
- neighborHolte
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for holt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA