Noun: hurst
| Singular | hurst |
| Plural | hursts |
Sample Sentences
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Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d
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So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,
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Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst, [1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27:]
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‘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.’ [1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158:]
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A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […] [2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150:]
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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. [2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124:]
Nouns inflected like hurst
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 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”). Doublet of horst. See: Middle English Nouns '
hirste', Old English Nouns '
hyrst', Dutch Nouns '
horst', German Nouns '
Horst'.
Verbs referencing "hurst"
German Nouns
Horst.