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Hurst
//hɝst// name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 A number of places in England:; A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
- 2 A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
- 3 A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
- 4 A number of places in England:; A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
- 5 A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
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- 6 A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
- 7 A number of places in England:; A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
- 8 A place in the United States:; A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
- 9 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
- 10 A place in the United States:; A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
- 11 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
- 12 A surname.
Noun
- 1 A wood or grove.
"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,"
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”).
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