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plural holts
A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. quotations examples
As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174
[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...
1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts
The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. examples