different between nurst vs hurst

English

Etymology

nurse +? -t

Verb

nurst

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of nurse
   • a. 1928, Thomas Hardy, Then and Now

     They would not deign / To profit by a stain / On the honourable rules, / Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst / Who in the heroic schools / Was nurst.

Anagrams

• runts, turns

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