Meaning of Holt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
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2. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
3. A placename
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4. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
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5. A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0203).
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6. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
7. A suburb of the town of Hook, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7354).
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8. A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0738).
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9. A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8662).
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10. A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8262).
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11. A village and community in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, on the River Dee, the border with England (OS grid SJ4153).
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12. A number of places in the United States:
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13. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
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14. An unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California.
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15. An unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida.
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16. A township in Taylor County, Iowa.
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17. An unincorporated community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
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18. An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
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19. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ingham County, Michigan.
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20. A township in Fillmore County, Minnesota.
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21. A minor city in Marshall County, Minnesota.
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22. A township in Marshall County, Minnesota.
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23. A minor city in Clay County and Clinton County, Missouri.
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24. A township in Gage County, Nebraska.
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25. A former township in Adams County, North Dakota, now part of Central Adams, North Dakota.
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26. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
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27. An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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28. A village in East Gwillimbury, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
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29. A municipality in Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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30. A hamlet in Overijssel, Netherlands; see Dutch Holt.
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31. A village in Tvedestrand municipality, Agder, Norway.
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32. A village in Letea Veche, Bacău County, Romania.
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33. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after PM Harold Holt.
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34. Ellipsis of Holt County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;”

“[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.”

“Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...”

“Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.”

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