Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wood or grove: now used chiefly in local names, as Hurst, Hazlehurst, Lyndhurst, etc. See the etymology.
- noun The husk or frame of a run of millstones.
- noun The ring of the helve of a trip-hammer, which supports the trunnions.
- noun A sand-bank near a river; also, a shallow in a river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazle
hurst .
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- proper noun A
surname .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thieves steal $3,400 in panties in Texas suburb: HURST, Texas - Police are looking for two men and a woman they say snatched $3,400 worth of panties from a Victoria's Secret in a Texas suburb of Hurst.
Archive 2009-03-15 Bill Crider 2009
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Where can I find a book called East to West by Kevin Hurst on pigeons?
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Michael Hurst is an author, speaker and dating coach based in the Washington, DC area.
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I think Hurst is chief among what is wrong with the art world today.
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Since 1986, it has been titled "Hurst's The Heart."
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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It seems like a really nice neighborhood in Hurst.
TEOTWAWKI: The Long Walk Home, Ch.12 “Food Fight” « Mark12ministries’s Weblog 2010
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All of these can be characterized by what is called the Hurst parameter, which is only valid for stationary (the probability and parameters such as the mean and the standard deviation, do not change as one moves along the series) stochastic (random) processes.
Never mind EliRabett 2009
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All of these can be characterized by what is called the Hurst parameter, which is only valid for stationary (the probability and parameters such as the mean and the standard deviation, do not change as one moves along the series) stochastic (random) processes.
Archive 2009-12-01 EliRabett 2009
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The King had been taken for security to a place called Hurst Castle: a lonely house on a rock in the sea, connected with the coast of Hampshire by a rough road two miles long at low water.
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The part of this Independent Congregation which desired to accept Mr. Allen's plan of harmony, drew out and went in what was called Hurst street, and built themselves a Church.
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