Noun: horst
| Singular | horst |
| Plural | horsts |
Sample Sentences
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The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts. [1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390:]
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1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,
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Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
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Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben. [1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, page 83:]
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Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins. [2011, James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, Physical Geography, 10th edition, page 393:]
Nouns inflected like horst
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst. See: German Nouns '
Horst'.
Verbs referencing "horst"
Dutch Nouns
horst.