A collection of trees growing more or less thickly together (esp. naturally, as distinguished from a plantation), of considerable extent, usually…

With uncertain meaning, denoting a wood of some kind, or wooded country collectively, esp. in poetic phrases associated with fell, field.

A wood; a copse. Now poetic and dialect. (Occurs in many place-names and derived surnames.)

A forest of natural growth, or allowed to grow naturally; an uncultivated or unfrequented wood. (In later use chiefly poetic.)

A wood.

holt side; holt-felster n. Obsolete i.e. holt-feller, a woodcutter. holt-wood n. Obsolete a wood.

An extensive tract of land covered with trees and undergrowth, sometimes intermingled with pasture. Also, the trees collectively of a ‘forest’.

Originally U.S. A group of growing trees or other plants, esp. of a specified age, condition, species, etc.