Hurst vs Durst - What's the difference?
hurst | durst |
A wood or grove.
* 2000 , Grazing Ecology and Forest History (ISBN 1845933060), page 150:
* 2010 , Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History , page 124:
(archaic) (dare)
*1595 , Act 2, Scene 2, lines 82-83
*1667 , Book I, line 49
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 6, ''Monk Samson
* 1883:
* 1896 , , XXX, lines 1-2:
As a noun hurst
is a wood or grove.As a proper noun Hurst
is {{surname}.As a verb durst is
simple past of dare.hurst
English
Noun
(en noun)- A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years,
- A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names [...]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.
Anagrams
*durst
English
Verb
(head)- Four and Twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail...
- Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms
- Pretty soul, she durst not lie, near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
- nor was there a monk who durst' speak to me, nor a laic who ' durst bring me food except by stealth.
- Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarterdeck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them.
- Others, I am not the first,
- ''Have willed more mischief than they durst'