hurst

1. (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.Examples: "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,"; "‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’"; "A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]"