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They have planted aquatic fauna in a river for eels, built amphibian ponds for newts and frogs, and installed wooden structures, called holts, for otters.

Eye of Newt and Wool of Bat Will Be Plentiful After London Olympics Paul Sonne 2011

A great outcry was heard on the edge of the jungle, and upon investigation a grey falcon and a "calloo-calloo" were found in such preoccupied "holts" that both were captured.

My Tropic Isle 1887

The copses that cover the slopes of the hills he calls "holts"; there are three or four within a short distance.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

Myers once found herself building holts to help the reintroduction of otters to the canal and seems pleased that mink still roam the banks.

A working life: the lock keeper Mark King 2010

Two otters have been spotted building their holts on the banks of the rivers Medway and Eden in Kent, delighting conservationists who had previously predicted they would not return to the county for another 10 years.

Otters are back – in every county in England 2011

Once you get rid of Mexico's corruption within its government, and lock down our borders, this problem is null. holts

The Gun Trail: Riding along with Houston's ATF 2010

Lavandera deleted the fact about California because that would just contradict CNN's agenda for more gun control. holts

The Gun Trail: Riding along with Houston's ATF 2010

And as soon as Sir Bedivere had lost the sight of the barge, he wept and wailed, and so took the forest; and so he went all that night, and in the morning he was ware betwixt two holts hoar, of a chapel and an hermitage.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

And anon these knights made them ready, and rode over holts and hills, through forests and woods, till they came into a fair meadow full of fair flowers and grass; and there they rested them and their horses all that night.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

But Ann, who had held in her temper as she governed a half-wild pony on the range, until this point, suddenly "let go all holts," as Bill Hicks would have expressed it.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson