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† hewt Obs.
[prob.:—OE. hiewet hewing, cutting (Gregory's Past. xxxvi. 253), and thus corresponding in sense to OF. copeiz, copse.]
? A copse; a grove.
1575Turberv. Venerie 75 He muste take good heede that he come not too earely into the springs and hewtes where he thinketh that the harte doth feed. [So 1677 in N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. 71; 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hart.] Ibid. 82 Now the huntsman should go to seeke an harte in small groues or hewts. 1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 66 A tumb to Troytowne and mouldy tempil aneereth Vowd to the godly Ceres; a ciper by the churche seat abydeth..From diuerse corners to that hewt wee wyl make asemblye. 1616Bullokar, Hewte, a little copse or groue. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 188/1 Hewts, or Springs [are] the places where the Deer feeds; taken for the small Groves or Copyes; and the Springs the greater Groves. |