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Webster 1913 Edition

3d p

ers.

ing.

res.

, contr. from holdeth.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Noun.

[AS.

holt

; akin to LG.

holt

, D.

hout

, G.

holz

. Icel.

holt

; cf Gael. & Ir.

coill

wood, Gr. [GREEK] branch, shoot.]

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.

“Every holt and heath.”

Chaucer.

She sent her voice though all the holt
Before her, and the park.

Tennyson.

A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.

“ The fox has gone to holt.”

C. Kingsley.

Noun.

[L. celo.] A wood or woodland; obsolete, except in poetry.