holt

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

holt, 3d pers. sing. pres. 

 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

holt, n. [AS. holt; akin to LG. holt, D. hout, G. holz. Icel. holt; cf Gael. & Ir. coill wood, Gr. branch, shoot.].

•  A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "She sent her voice though all the holt
  Before her, and the park."  [1913 Webster]
•  A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.  C. Kingsley.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

holt, n.
1 an animal's (esp. an otter's) lair.
2 colloq. or dial. grip, hold.

holt, n. archaic or dial.
1 a wood or copse.
2 a wooded hill.

Etymology

OE f. Gmc

ROGET THESAURUS

holt

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.