What is a holt?

1. Is Holt a word in English?
2. What does take Holt mean?
3. What does Holt mean in Swedish?
4. Does Holt mean stop?
5. Is Holt a word in Scrabble?
6. What does Greenwood mean?
7. Does halt mean stop?
8. Is Holt a German name?
9. What does Holt mean in Icelandic?
10. Is Holt an Irish surname?
11. What does Holt mean in Yorkshire?
12. Was put to a halt?
13. What do you mean by hurled?

Is Holt a word in English?

noun Archaic. a wood or grove. a wooded hill.

What does take Holt mean?

Take holt (or "take a holt") -- "to work hard and efficiently." From Southern Mountain Speech by Cratis D.

What does Holt mean in Swedish?

Swedish: ornamental or topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or copse, from hult, holt 'grove', 'copse' (Old Norse holt). Similar surnames: Holt, Halt, Hulst, Sult, Hils, Hulse, Huot, Hurt, Tuft, Huet.

Does Holt mean stop?

Whether it's used as a noun or a verb, the word halt means stop. You can remember this by remembering that when you step on the brake to halt your car (verb), it comes to a halt (noun).

Is Holt a word in Scrabble?

Yes, holt is in the scrabble dictionary.

What does Greenwood mean?

The surname Greenwood is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the Old English words meaning "green" and "wood." No doubt, the first family to bear this name lived in or near a dense forest or "whose abode was 'the merrie green-wood. ' "

Does halt mean stop?

to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily: They halted for lunch and strolled about.

Is Holt a German name?

English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the very many places named with this word.

What does Holt mean in Icelandic?

Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Albanian ...

Is Holt an Irish surname?

An English name meaning "wood". It has been in Ireland since 14 cent.

What does Holt mean in Yorkshire?

1) A copse or wood, a word rarely found in Yorkshire documents.

Was put to a halt?

To cause something to stop or to cease or conclude something. I'm going to put a halt to the corruption in this department once and for all! I wish my parents would put a halt to their bickering and just be civil to one another!

What do you mean by hurled?

1 : to send or thrust with great vigor the forces that were to be hurled against the Turks— N. T. Gilroy. 2 : to throw down with violence. 3a : to throw forcefully : fling hurled the manuscript into the fire hurled myself over the fence. b : pitch sense 2a.