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  • noun Plural form of hurst.

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Examples

  •     Be with hind that haunts the covert, or in hursts that house the boar?

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Be with hind that haunts the covert, or in hursts that house the boar?

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The prosperous residential street that had been so peaceful and empty suddenly seemed filled \vith a heavy lorry that hore dow'1 towards Orinda, brakes shrieking, horn blowing in banshee hursts.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

  • The wave hursts through between Africa and Antarctica.

    Lucifer's Hammer Niven, Larry 1977

  • Be with hind that haunts the covert, or in hursts that house the boar?

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • These were now the hunting-grounds of the kings and nobles, while in the leys, hursts, and dens, small groups of huts gave shelter to the swineherds and woodwards who had charge of their lord's property in the woodlands.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

  • Over the range-and down in the valley where the hursts or woods are situated, surrounded by meads and cornfields, there are other notes of colour to be found.

    The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Sir Christopher Hatton purchased it of the Fouls - hursts in 1 3/8.

    Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • Admittedly, he seemed charmed — rightly so — by her answer ”Well now, that hursts my feelings…but I’ll try to go on”.

    The Early Word: On the Defensive - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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