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• Holt

  ·noun A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. II. Holt ·- 3d pers. ·sg ·pres. of Hold, contr...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• holt

  for hold. Ex. 'Death has got holt of him.' ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• holt

  [from the Anglo-Saxon]. A peaked hill covered with a wood. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hutton, Richard Holt

  (1826-1897) Essayist and miscellaneous writer, was brought up as a Unitarian, and for some time was...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin