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hurst (hɜːst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a wood |
| 2. | a sandbank |
| [Old English hyrst; related to Old High German hurst] | |
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F hurst
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
hurst
"hillock" (especially a sandy one), also "grove, wooded eminence," from O.E. hyrst, from P.Gmc. *khurstiz (cf. M.Du. horst "underwood," Ger. Horst "thicket, shrubbery"). Common in place names (cf. Amherst).
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