A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1599
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Holt, n. Also: hout, howt. [ME., OE., ON. holt.] A wood or copse; a wooded stretch of ground. (Only in poetry.)Frequent in holtis hare: see Hare a.1 3 b.(a) a1500 Henr. Fab. 1692.
Baith hill and holt heillit with frostis hair a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 493.
Thow huifis on thir holtis and haldis me here a1500 Golagros and Gawane 234.
Thus iournait … thyr … knichtis, … Our the mountains gay, Holtis and hills 1513 Doug. iv. iv. 48.
Our the clewys and the holtis … The wild beistis down … thai dryve 1513 Ib. vii. xiii. 42.
The hilly knowis hie, … and holtis fair to se a1500 Peblis to Play 58.
Thair fure ane man to the holt 15.. Clariodus iv. 1608.
Whill bricht Apollo schynit ouer holte and hill 1570 Satirical Poems xv. 49.
All birdis and beistis, all hillis and holtis(b) 1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 65.
Woddis, forrestis, with nakyt bewis blowt, Stude strippyt of thar weid in euery howt [Sm. hout]
