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Hould vs Hoult - What's the difference?

hould | hoult |

As a verb hould

is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a noun hoult is

a wood; copse.

hould

English

Verb

  • * {{quote-book, year=1624, author=Thomas Heywood, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=The Captives, edition= citation
    • , passage=Of all Infirmityes belonginge to us I hould those woorst that will not lett a man Rest in his bedd a-nights. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Wyandotte, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Och! he's a roarer, sure enough; and then for the tusks you mintion, I didn't see 'em, with my eyes; but the crathure has a mouth that might hould a basket-full." }}

    hoult

    English

    Alternative forms

    * holt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A wood; copse.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book VIII, xii:
  • *:The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.
    • (Webster 1913)