/hɝst/, /hɜːst/
OriginFrom Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”).
- A wood or grove.
“Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d
So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,
Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,”
“‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’”
“A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]”
- A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
- A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
- A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
- A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
- A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
- A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
- A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
- A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
- A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
- A surname.
Formshursts(plural)