hurst

See also: Hurst

English

Etymology

From Middle English hirst (“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”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /hɝst/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɜːst/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st

Noun

hurst (plural hursts)

(rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 2 p. 27:
  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,
- 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150:
  A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]
- 2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124:
  A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […] . Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.

Derived terms

Higher Hurst
Hurst Green
Lyndhurst
Sandhurst

Translations

a wood or grove

Bulgarian: горичка (bg) f (gorička)
Dutch: horst (nl)
Esperanto: bosko
Galician: touza (gl) f, frondía f
Low German:
German Low German: Huorst
Russian: роща (ru) f (rošča)

Anagrams

Hurts, Stuhr, Thurs, hurts

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Verb

hurst

second-person singular present of huren