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hurst
"hillock" (especially a sandy one), also "grove, wooded eminence," from Old English
hyrst
, from Proto-Germanic
*hurstiz
(cognates: Middle Dutch
horst
"underwood," German
Horst
"thicket, shrubbery"). Common in place names (such as
Amherst
).