hoult
English
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Noun
hoult (plural hoults)
- (obsolete) A wood; copse.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xii:
- The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xii:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hoult”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)