nurst

nurst

English

Etymology

nurse +‎ -t

Verb

nurst

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of nurse
   • a. 1928, Thomas Hardy, Then and Now

     They would not deign / To profit by a stain / On the honourable rules, / Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst / Who in the heroic schools / Was nurst.

Anagrams

• runts, turns