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Webster 1913 Edition

Hurst

Hurst

,
Noun.
[OE.
hurst
, AS.
hyrst
; akin to OHG.
hurst
,
horst
, wood, thicket, G.
horst
the nest of a bird of prey, an eyerie, thicket.]
A wood or grove; – a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hurst

HURST

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Noun.
A wood or grove; a word found in many names, as in Hazlehurst.

Definition 2024

Hurst

Hurst

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English

Proper noun

Hurst

  1. A surname​.

See also

hurst

hurst

See also: Hurst

English

Noun

hurst ‎(plural hursts)

  1. (rare outside placenames) A wood or grove.
    • 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History (ISBN 1845933060), 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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From Middle English hirst ‎(“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), Old English hyrst ‎(“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-Germanic *hurstiz; akin to Dutch horst ‎(“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst ‎(“thicket, nest”)

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