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Holt
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- 1 A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood. countable, uncountable
- 2 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0203). countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A suburb of the town of Hook, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7354). countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0738). countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8662). countable, uncountable
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- 6 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8262). countable, uncountable
- 7 A placename; A number of places in the United Kingdom:; A village and community in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, on the River Dee, the border with England (OS grid SJ4153). countable, uncountable
- 8 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. countable, uncountable
- 9 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California. countable, uncountable
- 10 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida. countable, uncountable
- 11 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Taylor County, Iowa. countable, uncountable
- 12 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
- 13 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
- 14 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ingham County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
- 15 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Fillmore County, Minnesota. countable, uncountable
- 16 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Marshall County, Minnesota. countable, uncountable
- 17 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Marshall County, Minnesota. countable, uncountable
- 18 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Clay County and Clinton County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
- 19 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Gage County, Nebraska. countable, uncountable
- 20 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; A former township in Adams County, North Dakota, now part of Central Adams, North Dakota. countable, uncountable
- 21 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio. countable, uncountable
- 22 A placename; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin. countable, uncountable
- 23 A placename; A village in East Gwillimbury, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 24 A placename; A municipality in Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. countable, uncountable
- 25 A placename; A hamlet in Overijssel, Netherlands; see Dutch Holt. countable, uncountable
- 26 A placename; A village in Tvedestrand municipality, Agder, Norway. countable, uncountable
- 27 A placename; A village in Letea Veche, Bacău County, Romania. countable, uncountable
- 28 A placename; A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after PM Harold Holt. countable, uncountable
- 29 A placename; Ellipsis of Holt County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
"As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;"
- 2 The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
"Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool."
Etymology
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.
English, Dutch, north German, Norwegian and Danish surname, all from the noun holt (“copse, woodland”).
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