Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
holt .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See
holt .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
holt . (wooded area)
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Examples
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"She'll never lave hoult of him," said Pat, solemnly.
Mary Gray Katharine Tynan 1896
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They hoped it would hoult so as to bring her head round; but the cable went, as soon as the strain came.
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If meself had been in the box, I couldn't ha 'taken it more tinder, till we began to go, and then, plase yer honour, I hadn't no hoult of anything at all at all.
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"And do you think, sir," said Darby, "that if they had a hard or an enlightened hoult of their own creed, that that would do it?"
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"Why, the gintleman got up, and tuck a hoult o 'the black villain by the nose, led him to the head of the stairs, then turned him down before him, and made his feet right and left play against the barrow knight, like the tucks of a cloth mill, until he thrundled him clane -- I'm not so sure of that, though -- out o' the hall door."
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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He had her, I say, hard and fast by the hip, but it was only for a moment; how she escaped; from him nobody knows; but it was thought that he wasn't able, from want of breath, to keep his hoult.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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"Well, that's a fact," said Michael, letting the end of the trunk down into the street with a force that threatened its frail constitution; – "if the handle wouldn't hould, there'd be no hoult onto it, at all.
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If meself had been in the box, I couldn't ha 'taken it more tinder, till we began to go, and then, plase yer honour, I hadn't no hoult of anything at all at all. "
Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852
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