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Hoast vs Horst - What's the difference?

hoast | horst |

As verbs the difference between hoast and horst

is that hoast is (lb) to cough or hoast can be while horst is .

As a noun hoast

is (dialectal) a cough or hoast can be .

hoast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal) A cough.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 17:
  • *:in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To cough.

    • Etymology 3

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)

    • horst

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia horst) (en noun)
  • (geology) an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land
  • * 1968 , , page 83:
    • Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.

    Antonyms

    * graben

    Anagrams

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