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Hurst

Hurst \Hurst\, n. [OE. hurst, AS. hyrst; akin to OHG. hurst, horst, wood, thicket, G. horst the nest of a bird of prey, an eyerie, thicket.] A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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).

Wiktionary
hurst

n. (lb en rare outside placenames) A wood or grove.

Gazetteer
Hurst, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 805
Housing Units (2000): 386
Land area (2000): 0.860869 sq. miles (2.229641 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.860869 sq. miles (2.229641 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36815
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.832366 N, 89.144475 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Hurst, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 36273
Housing Units (2000): 14729
Land area (2000): 9.903518 sq. miles (25.649992 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.903518 sq. miles (25.649992 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35576
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.835629 N, 97.180172 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76053 76054
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Hurst

Hurst may refer to:

Hurst (surname)

Hurst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Hurst (cricketer)
  • Alan Hurst (politician), (* 1945), British politician
  • Brian Desmond Hurst, an Irish film director
  • Bruce Hurst, a former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Charles Angas Hurst, an Australian Mathematical Physicist
  • Charles Chamberlain Hurst, British Mendelian geneticist and botanist
  • Demontre Hurst, American football player
  • Fannie Hurst, an American novelist
  • Geoff Hurst, (* 1941), English footballer
  • George Samuel Hurst, American health physicist and inventor, touchscreen pioneer
  • Glynn Hurst, a professional footballer
  • Harold Edwin Hurst (1880–1978), British hydrologist
  • James Hurst, a short story writer of The Scarlet Ibis
  • James Hurst (baseball), former Major League Baseball player
  • John Fletcher Hurst, a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Jonny Hurst, England's first Chant Laureate
  • Kevan Hurst, a footballer
  • Lee Hurst (comedian)
  • Lee Hurst (footballer)
  • Lillian Hurst, a Puerto Rican actress and comedian
  • Michael Hurst, an actor, director and writer
  • Mike Hurst (politician), Canadian politician
  • Mike Hurst (producer), British singer and record producer
  • Murray Hurst, former coach of the North Queensland Cowboys
  • Nathan Hurst, an Australian programmer
  • Pat Hurst, an American golfer
  • Paul Hurst, a former English footballer
  • Paul Hurst (actor)
  • Rick Hurst, an American actor
  • Robert Hurst, various including:
    • Robert Hurst (broadcaster), the president of CTV News
  • Ryan Hurst, an American actor
  • Trevor Hurst, lead singer of Econoline Crush
  • William Hurst (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "hurst".

Bob Hurst, who was dusting the counter and the phone for fingerprints.

Bob Hurst sat opposite them, and a police-woman stood in a corner and watched.

Jackson Oxenhandler nodded and walked toward the interrogation room passing Bob Hurst along the way.

Detective Hurst had obtained written permission from Sweeney for the search.

Skene said, and Hurst took the stand again and was reminded that he was still under oath.

Detective Hurst asked you if you owned a pistol, and you affirmed that you did, was the Colt pistol the one to which you were referring?

Hurd Wallace and Bob Hurst were standing in the hallway outside, talking animatedly.

She started toward Wallace and Hurst, but stopped when someone took her arm from behind.

She watched the two men carefully for their reactions, and they were what she would have expected--sadness and worry on the part of Hurst, and the usual lack of emotion on the part of Wallace.

Bob Hurst had gotten married, and he had filled out a form re questing that his new wife be added to his health insurance.

She led Hurst to interrogation room one, with Hurd Wallace bringing up the rear, and closed the door behind them.

Henry and Lady Dalrymple, Squire Moffat and Mrs Moffat, Mr Butterworth, Mr Hurst and the Misses Pinkerton.

Mr Hurst, a gentleman farmer whom Em, Harry suspected, had long had in her matchmaking sights.

Harry exchanged nods with Pelham Hurst, who he privately considered a pompous ass.

Pelham Hurst, ineradicably convinced of his self-worth, offered a heavily creased sleeve.