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plural holms
Small island, islet. examples
An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. examples
(dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. examples
Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland. examples
(obsolete outside dialects) The holly. quotations
The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 5
A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. examples