hurst
noun/hɝst/US/hɜːst/UK
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.
Definitions
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 number of places in England
A number of places in England:
A place in the United States
A place in the United States:
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A surname.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hurst. 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