holt
see also: Holt
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /hɒlt/, /həʊlt/
Noun

holt (plural holts)

  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
      [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
    • 1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts:
      Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...
  2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

Holt
Proper noun
  1. An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
  2. A market town in Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0738).
  3. A village in Dorset, England.
  4. A village in Wiltshire, England.



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