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Hols vs Holt - What's the difference?

hols | holt |

As nouns the difference between hols and holt

is that hols is holidays (time off work or time spent travelling) while holt is a small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

As a proper noun Holt is

an English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.

hols

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (British, informal) Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).
    • Where are you off on your hols this year?
    English clippings

    holt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hoult

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book X, ii:
  • *:As when a savage wolf, chas'd from the fold, / To hide his head runs to some holt or wood.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.
  • *1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXI, line 5
  • *:[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
  • The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

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