Holt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Origin

From Middle English holt, from Old English holt ("forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber"), 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 ("wook, 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"), Albanian shul ("door latch").

Alternative forms

• hoult

Full definition of holt

Noun

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
• 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book X, ii:As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold,
• To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.
• She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. -- Tennyson.
• (the gale) 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger. A. E. Housman, , XXXI, line 5
• The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

Anagrams

• loth