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[hurst] 
–noun
| 1. | Fannie, 1889–1968, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| 2. | a city in N Texas. 31,420. |
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| Hurst (hûrst) A city of northeast Texas, an industrial and residential suburb of Fort Worth. Population: 38,200. |
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Hurst
Hurst\, n. [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.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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