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Holt vs Molt - What's the difference?

holt | molt |

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 molt is

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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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    molt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * moult (British English )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.
  • To shed in such a manner.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
    • Some birds change colour during their winter molt .
  • The skin or feathers cast off during the process of ing.

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