hurst
See also: Hurst
English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɝst/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɜːst/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Noun edit
hurst (plural hursts)
- (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27:
- 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,
- 1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158:
- ‘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.’
- 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150:
- A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]
- 2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124:
- 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.
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a wood or grove
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hurst
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hurst
- Alternative form of hirste