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Hurst vs Thurst - What's the difference?

hurst | thurst |

As a proper noun hurst

is .

As a noun thurst is

(mining) the ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.

hurst

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wood or grove.
  • * 2000 , Grazing Ecology and Forest History (ISBN 1845933060), page 150:
    • A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years,
  • * 2010 , Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History , page 124:
    • 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.

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    thurst

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) The ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
    • (Raymond)
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