holt
noun
a wood or grove.
holts
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pluralof holt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For we must go unhidden soon, where the marshland lay open and bare down to the river, the alder and willow holts ceasing when their roots felt the salt water of the spring tides.
From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
That's the word for it; she let go all holts an' dropped, gatherin' him up in her arms.
From Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips
We was there in no time, and come a-whizzing down amongst them, and they broke and scattered every which way, and some that was climbing the ladder after Jim let go all holts and fell.
From Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
The blackbirds in the birchen holts The live-long day were singing, Where countless azure hyacinths Their perfumed bells were ringing.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
I saw her before me whose feet trod with mine the green holts and meadows, when the childish thought strayed not beyond the near or the possible.
From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
