holt

FREQ #7603

n. 小林, 林丘

发音

UK /hɒlt/
其它
UK /həʊlt/
US /hoʊlt/

词形变化

holts 复数 holts

别名

hoult

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

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

  2. 2.

    The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

相关短语

Holt County Harold Holt Harry Holt

词源

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.

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