hurst
Pronunciations (2)
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/hɝst/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/hɜːst/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
Noun
A wood or grove.
- Examples
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More examples (2)
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, […]
More examples (1)
A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.
Word forms
hursts