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noun Archaic.
1.
a wood or grove.
2.
a wooded hill.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English holte, Old English holt; cognate with Dutch hout, Old Norse holt, German Holz wood; akin to Greek kládos twig (see clado-), Old Irish caill wood
before 900; Middle English holte, Old English holt; cognate with Dutch hout, Old Norse holt, German Holz wood; akin to Greek kládos twig (see clado-), Old Irish caill wood
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holt
O.E. holt "woods," common in place names, from P.Gmc. *khulto- (cf. O.Fris., M.Du. holt, Ger. Holz "wood"), from PIE *kldo- (cf. O.C.S. klada "beam, timber," Gk. klados "twig," O.Ir. caill "wood").
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