Holt vs Burrow - What's the difference?
holt | burrow |
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.
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A mound.
An incorporated town.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between holt and burrow
is that holt is a small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse while burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.As a proper noun Holt
is an English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.As a verb burrow is
to dig a tunnel or hole.holt
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Alternative forms
* houltNoun
(en noun)References
* *Anagrams
* ----burrow
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Noun
(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
