different between hurst vs thurst

English

Etymology

From Middle English hirst (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??st/
• Rhymes: -??(?)st

Noun

hurst (plural hursts)

1. (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 2 p. 27[1]:

     Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d

     So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,

     Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,

   • 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History ?ISBN, page 150:

     A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]

Translations

Anagrams

• Hurts, Stuhr, Thurs, hurts

English

Etymology

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Noun

thurst (plural thursts)

1. (mining) The ruins of the fallen roof in a coal mine, resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.

References

Anagrams

• 'struth, Hurtts, struth, thrust, truths

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

Noun

thurst m

1. thirst

Descendants

• Middle Low German: dorst
  • German Low German: Dörst, Döst
  • Plautdietsch: Darscht