Definition of "holt" []

• Archaic A wood or grove; a copse. (noun)

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• "Chaucer -- for he knew that "smalè foulès" shelter in the "hethe" as well as in the "holt" -- among broom and bracken, and heath and rushes."
• "Everybody on the border in those days used to steal, and their best "holt," as we say, was cattle."
• "Riley's best "holt" as a poet was his memory of his own boyhood and his perception that the child-mind lingers in every adult reader."