holt

[from the Anglo-Saxon].

A peaked hill covered with a wood.

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
a wood. S. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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