harold holt








noun

  1. Harold Edward,1908–67, Australian political leader: prime minister 1966–67.
  2. a town in central Michigan.

noun

  1. archaic, or poetic a wood or wooded hill

noun

  1. the burrowed lair of an animal, esp an otter

noun

  1. Harold Edward. 1908–67, Australian statesman; prime minister (1966–67); believed drowned
n.

Old English holt “woods,” common in place names, from Proto-Germanic *hultam- (cf. Old Frisian, Old Norse, Middle Dutch holt, Dutch hout, German Holz “wood”), from PIE *kldo- (cf. Old Church Slavonic klada “beam, timber,” Greek klados “twig,” Old Irish caill “wood”), from root *kel- “to strike, cut.”

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