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Nurst vs Hurst - What's the difference?

nurst | hurst |

As a verb nurst

is (archaic) (nurse).

As a proper noun hurst is

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nurst

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (nurse)
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • They would not deign / To profit by a stain / On the honourable rules, / Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst / Who in the heroic schools / Was nurst .

    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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