hoult

English

Etymology

Variant of holt.

Noun

hoult (plural hoults)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Louth