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Moult vs Hoult - What's the difference?

moult | hoult |

As nouns the difference between moult and hoult

is that moult is the process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc while hoult is (label) a wood; copse.

As a verb moult

is to shed or lose a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

moult

English

Alternative forms

* molt (American English)

Noun

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

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shed or lose a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

    • 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)