holt
Plural: holts
Noun
- A small wood or grove of trees.
- A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
Examples
- Hidden away in a corner, the word HOLT was a small, valuable play.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.
Scrabble Score: 7
holt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordholt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
holt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary