holts

Noun

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
   • As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174
2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
   • Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt...1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19

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