Definitions
Small piece of woodland or a wooded hill.
Word origin
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”), perhaps corresponding to a root noun *kél(h₂)d ~ *kól(h₂)d ~ *kl̥(h₂)d- (literally “chopped (wood)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-, *kleh₂- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
Used in a sentence
“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...”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Small wood”4 letters
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