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Dense stand of trees, shrubs, or vines
A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed
Thicket
Topics referred to by the same term
The Thicket may refer to The Thicket (novel), a 2013 novel by Joe R. Lansdale The Thicket (film), a 2024 western film based on the novel The Thicket (album)
The_Thicket
2024 film by Elliott Lester
The Thicket is a 2024 American Western thriller film directed by Elliott Lester and written by Chris Kelley. It is a film adaptation of the 2014 novel
The_Thicket_(film)
Heavily forested area of Southeast Texas, US
The Big Thicket is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents
Big_Thicket
Unincorporated community in Texas, US
Thicket is an unincorporated community in northwestern Hardin County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical
Thicket,_Texas
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up thicket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A thicket is a dense stand of trees or shrubs. It may also refer to Patent thicket The Thicket (disambiguation)
Thicket_(disambiguation)
British actor and comedian (born 1965)
include Tommy Saxondale, Duncan Thicket, Ernest Eckler and Portuguese Eurovision Song Contest winner Tony Ferrino. Duncan Thicket has appeared in a tour of
Steve_Coogan
Sculptures excavated at Ur, in southern Iraq
The Ram in a Thicket is a pair of figures excavated at Ur (in modern southern Iraq), which date from about 2600–2400 BC. One is in the Mesopotamia Gallery
Ram_in_a_Thicket
Overlapping set of patent rights
A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. This concept has negative
Patent_thicket
Reservoir in Hampshire, England
Havant Thicket Reservoir is a reservoir currently under construction to the north of the town of Havant in Hampshire, England. It is the first reservoir
Havant_Thicket_Reservoir
2013 novel by Joe R. Lansdale
The Thicket is a mystery/suspense novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It was released by Mulholland Books on September 10, 2013. The title
The_Thicket_(novel)
Area of Crown land within Dawesville, Western Australia
Tims Thicket, sometimes spelled Tim's Thicket, is an area of Crown land within Dawesville, Western Australia that is known for its waste treatment facility
Tims_Thicket
Genus of rodents
Arid thicket rat (Grammomys aridulus) Short-snouted thicket rat (Grammomys brevirostris) Bunting's thicket rat (Grammomys buntingi) Gray-headed thicket rat
Grammomys
Neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, United States
Elm Thicket (also known as Elm Thicket/Northpark) is a primarily residential neighborhood in North Dallas, Texas near Love Field airport and the neighborhoods
Elm_Thicket,_Dallas
Species of bird
long migrations, but sooty thicket fantail as well as the other thicket fantails (white-bellied thicket fantail and black thicket fantail) are very weak fliers
Sooty_thicket_fantail
1998 studio album by David Grubbs
The Thicket is the second album by David Grubbs, released on September 15, 1998, through Drag City. All tracks are written by David Grubbs. Musicians
The_Thicket_(album)
Species of bird
The black thicket fantail (Rhipidura maculipectus) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea. This
Black_thicket_fantail
Archaeological site in Delaware, United States
Poplar Thicket, also known as Marian R. Okie Memorial Wildlife Preserve at Poplar Thicket, is an archaeological site located in Long Neck, Delaware. Poplar
Poplar_Thicket
Species of tree
Amelanchier canadensis (also known as Canadian serviceberry, thicket serviceberry, shad-blow serviceberry, shad-blow, shadbush serviceberry, shadbush
Amelanchier_canadensis
Species of rodent
giant thicket rat (Grammomys gigas) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae which is restricted to a small area of Kenya. The giant thicket rat is
Giant_thicket_rat
Species of vine
Parthenocissus inserta (syn. Parthenocissus vitacea), also known as thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, is a woody vine
Parthenocissus_inserta
Afrotropic terrestrial ecoregion of dense woodland in South Africa
The Albany thickets is an ecoregion of dense woodland in southern South Africa, which is concentrated around the Albany region of the Eastern Cape (whence
Albany_thickets
Ecoregion in eastern Africa
The Itigi-Sumbu thicket is an ecoregion consisting of two small areas of thick shrubland in Tanzania, Zambia and the adjacent Democratic Republic of the
Itigi–Sumbu_thicket
Species of bird
The thicket antpitta (Myrmothera dives) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and
Thicket_antpitta
Species of bird
The thicket tinamou or rufescent tinamou (Crypturellus cinnamomeus) is a type of tinamou commonly found in moist forests in subtropical and tropical central
Thicket_tinamou
The Thicket is a settlement located north of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is part of the town of Harbour Grace. The population was 61 in
The Thicket, Newfoundland and Labrador
The_Thicket,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
Monastery in Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England
Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It
Thicket_Priory
Major vegetation group in Australia
and vine thickets are a major vegetation group in Australia. It consists of temperate to tropical rainforests, monsoon forests, and vine thickets. Rainforests
Rainforests_and_vine_thickets
Thicket of any of a variety of Arundinaria grasses
a thicket of any of a variety of Arundinaria grasses: A. gigantea, A. tecta and A. appalachiana. As a bamboo, these giant grasses grow in thickets up
Canebrake
American actor (born 2002)
announced to be cast as Jack in the Peter Dinklage western project The Thicket. In September 2024, Hawke made his directorial debut with Picture Day,
Levon_Hawke
Unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States
Briar Thicket is an unincorporated community in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States. The historic Conway Bridge is located near Briar Thicket. U.S.
Briar_Thicket,_Tennessee
Species of rodent
The Selous thicket rat (Grammomys selousi) is a species of rodent endemic to Tanzania. Engelbrektsson, P. (2016). "Grammomys selousi". IUCN Red List of
Selous_thicket_rat
Species of bird
The white-bellied thicket fantail (Rhipidura leucothorax) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. This species is one of 47 in the genus Rhipidura
White-bellied_thicket_fantail
Ecoregion in Madagascar
The Madagascar ericoid thickets is a montane shrubland ecoregion, found at higher elevations on Madagascar's four major mountains. The ecoregion covers
Madagascar_ericoid_thickets
U.S. state
covered with swordfern, alumnroot, barrenwort, and trillium, and there are thickets of huckleberry, azalea, elder, and wild currant. Characteristic wild flowers
California
River in East Texas
include Village Creek and Pine Island Bayou, draining much of the Big Thicket region, both joining the Neches a few miles north of Beaumont. Towns and
Neches_River
Impassably dense forest, typically tropical
Anglo-Indian interpretation led to its connotation as a dense "tangled thicket". The term is prevalent in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, and
Jungle
Topics referred to by the same term
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ram Caught in a Thicket. If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the
Ram_Caught_in_a_Thicket
English actress (born 2000)
Claire. Retrieved 15 April 2019. "Esmé Creed-Miles | Through The Primeval Thicket, No One Can Hear You Scream". Flaunt Magazine. Retrieved 24 November 2019
Esmé_Creed-Miles
1948 essay by Robert Graves
son. Graves first wrote the book under the title of The Roebuck in the Thicket in a three-week period during January 1944, only a month after he had finished
The_White_Goddess
Genus of rodents
Genus Thamnomys Kemp's thicket rat - Thamnomys kempi Dollman, 1911 Hatt's thicket rat - Thamnomys major Hatt, 1934 Charming thicket rat - Thamnomys venustus
Thamnomys
Species of rodent
The short-snouted thicket rat (Grammomys brevirostris) is a species of rodent endemic to Kenya. Dando, T.; Kennerley, R.; Kryštufek, B. (2019). "Grammomys
Short-snouted_thicket_rat
Species of rodent
Kemp's thicket rat (Thamnomys kempi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda
Kemp's_thicket_rat
Census division in Manitoba, Canada
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 Division No. 22, also informally known as Thompson-North Central, is a census division within
Division_No._22,_Manitoba
Species of carnivore
(Big Thicket hog-nosed skunk)† – Oklahoma and southeastern Texas Although not threatened through most of its range, one subspecies, the Big Thicket hog-nosed
American_hog-nosed_skunk
Collected poems by David Malouf
Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems (1974) is the second poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf. It won the ALS Gold Medal, the Grace
Neighbours_in_a_Thicket
Highest court of jurisdiction in the U.S
court's involvement in that case, its hastiness to enter the political thicket and the half-baked and strained decision that resulted...Toobin remains
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
Ecoregion in Southwest Madagascar
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found
Madagascar_spiny_forests
Species of plant in the sedge family
Carex abscondita, the thicket sedge, is a North American species of sedge first described by Kenneth Mackenzie in 1910. It grows along the central and
Carex_abscondita
Temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of the United States
oak. Historically the most dense part of this forest region was the Big Thicket though the lumber industry dramatically reduced the forest concentration
Piney_Woods
Region of Texas
area, including Woodville and Kountze. The Big Thicket National Preserve protects part of the old thicket, highlighting the area's biological resources
Southeast_Texas
Nature reserve in Essex, England
Shotgate Thickets is a 3.2-hectare (7.9-acre) nature reserve east of Wickford in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This site on the north
Shotgate_Thickets
U.S. state
Mammoth National Parks Big Bend Guadalupe Mountains National Preserves Big Thicket National Recreation Areas Amistad Lake Meredith National Seashores Padre
Texas
Species of rodent
The woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus), also known as the woodland mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Angola
Woodland_thicket_rat
Species of lizard
Lerista cinerea, the vine-thicket fine-lined slider, is a species of skink found in Queensland, Australia. Vanderduys, E.; Amey, A.; Couper, P.; Sanderson
Lerista_cinerea
Country in Southern Africa
and hot, dry summers, hosting the famous fynbos biome of shrubland and thicket. This area produces much of the wine in South Africa and is known for its
South_Africa
1919 accident in Massachusetts, United States
by a licensed architect and civil engineer. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' song "Great Molasses Disaster" is about the flood, and their official
Great_Molasses_Flood
American adult animated television series
tyrannosaurs that killed his family, Spear silently pursues it into a thicket, but instead finds it to be a female Tyrannosaurus named Fang, with her
Primal_(TV_series)
Species of rodent
Hatt's thicket rat (Thamnomys major), is a species of thicket rat indigenous to the northern slopes of Mount Karisimbi, an inactive volcano in North Kivu
Hatt's_thicket_rat
Australian writer (1934–2026)
delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures. Malouf's 1974 collection Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and the Australian Literature
David_Malouf
Founder of Buddhism
enlightenment. Majjhima Nikaya 4 mentions that Gautama lived in "remote jungle thickets" during his years of spiritual striving and had to overcome the fear that
The_Buddha
Canadian band
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a Canadian rock band from Chilliwack, British Columbia. Their music largely consists of often tongue-in-cheek homages
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
The_Darkest_of_the_Hillside_Thickets
U.S. state
Lynes Woods Marblehead Neck Moose Hill Museum of American Bird Art Nahant Thicket Nashoba Brook North Hill Marsh North River Oak Knoll Pierpont Meadow Pleasant
Massachusetts
Via Rail service in Manitoba, Canada
1229 Bridgar 1220 Pikwitonei 1199 Sipiwesk 1149 Thompson 1086 Leven 1073 Thicket Portage 1064 Hockin 1052 La Perouse 1041 Earchman 1031 Odhill 1017 Lyddal
Winnipeg–Churchill_train
Species of rodent
Bunting's thicket rat (Grammomys buntingi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra
Bunting's_thicket_rat
The Mediterranean Acacia–Argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in North Africa centered
Mediterranean Acacia–Argania dry woodlands
Mediterranean_Acacia–Argania_dry_woodlands
Species of succulent plant
Cape, eastwards up until the thicket vegetation of the Eastern Cape. Spekboom is found most prolifically in the Albany thickets, a woodland ecoregion, which
Portulacaria_afra
Bushland dominated by Commiphora and Acacia
bushlands and thickets – southeastern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and central Somalia Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets – southwestern
Acacia–Commiphora_bushland
U.S. state
'to trim', or 'to gather'). The meaning may have been 'clearers of the thicket' or 'herb gatherers', referring to clearing land for cultivation or collecting
Alabama
Species of canine native to North America
homestead shacks, grain bins, drainage pipes, railroad tracks, hollow logs, thickets, and thistles. The den is continuously dug and cleaned out by the female
Coyote
Species of flowering plant
native to eastern China, Taiwan, and Japan, where it grows in mountain thickets. This medium-sized evergreen shrub or tree is widely cultivated in gardens
Pieris_japonica
Species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae
species, forming extensive, impenetrable stands within forest understories, thickets, borders, and lowlands. It can be identified by its characteristic fringed
Rosa_multiflora
American actor (born 1969)
(2017), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Thicket (2024), and Wicked (2024). In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel
Peter_Dinklage
Supernatural lights that appear in Eastern Texas
The Light of Saratoga is a legend located in the Big Thicket of Southeast Texas. This legend of a mysterious light is also known as the Ghost Road of
Light_of_Saratoga
River in the United States
very heart of the Big Thicket. The basin is sometimes referred to as the "Traditional Thicket" or "The Old Bear Hunters' Thicket" and it has a high diversity
Pine_Island_Bayou
Species of flowering plant
suckering shrub which develops new plants from the roots and forms dense thickets 1–1.50 m tall with stems densely covered in numerous short, straight prickles
Rosa_rugosa
Species of legume
Phaseolus polystachios, also known as the thicket bean or wild kidney bean, is a perennial, herbaceous vine that is native to North America. It is unique
Phaseolus_polystachios
Country in East Africa
African montane forests, and the Northern Acacia–Commiphora bushlands and thickets. South Sudan has a tropical climate, characterised by a rainy season of
South_Sudan
Personality construct
exclusively on reasoning seem to find it harder to sort their way through moral thickets. Does that mean they should be held to different standards of accountability
Psychopathy
Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)
platform near Domodedovo Airport. Pokhlistova was lured off a train into a thicket of woods close to the village of Vostryakovo where she was bound, stabbed
Andrei_Chikatilo
Largest city in Texas, United States
while further north, it transitions into a subtropical jungle, the Big Thicket. Much of the city was built on forested land, marshes, or swamps, and all
Houston
Species of mammal
in the vicinity of streams, in swamp forests and in tall grass or shrub thickets. Boars never defecate in their shelters and will cover themselves with
Wild_boar
American politician and lawyer (1903–1996)
and where the Big Thicket actually was, it took seven years and another 27 Big Thicket bills until Congress established the Big Thicket National Preserve
Ralph_Yarborough
City in Texas, United States
lumber annually. Kountze describes itself as "The Gateway to the Big Thicket". The thicket is a vast area of tangled, often impenetrable woods, streams, and
Kountze,_Texas
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Big Thicket Lake Estates is a census-designated place (CDP) in Polk and Liberty counties, Texas, United States. This was a new CDP for the 2010 census
Big Thicket Lake Estates, Texas
Big_Thicket_Lake_Estates,_Texas
U.S. state
a lush open woodland environment similar to oak savanna with abundant thickets of river cane, a species of bamboo, was once described by E. Lucy Braun
Kentucky
Species of flowering plant
family. The plant is endemic to China. Its native habitat includes forests, thickets, and riverbanks. In cultivation it is valued for its vivid white winter
Rubus_cockburnianus
Species of rodent
The arid thicket rat (Grammomys aridulus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Sudan. Its natural habitat is subtropical
Arid_thicket_rat
Scottish surname list of people
from the Brythonic elements ar, meaning "on", "by"; and cardden, meaning "thicket". The Scottish Gaelic form of the surname is Urchardan. Alasdair Urquhart
Urquhart_(surname)
Species of hawthorn
hawthorn known by the common names Copenhagen hawthorn, Lange's thorn and thicket hawthorn. It is native to eastern Canada and the eastern United States
Crataegus_intricata
America's strongest man in 2018
Trey Mitchell Personal information Nickname "The Big Thicket" Born (1993-07-16) July 16, 1993 (age 32) Lumberton, Texas Height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) Weight
Trey_Mitchell_(strongman)
Country in North Africa
juniper steppe, Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets, Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe, Mediterranean woodlands and forests
Morocco
to set fire to himself and the engine bay. He then heads into the dense thicket, looking for a man-sized creature Lucy claimed to have seen. A clown and
List of Not Going Out episodes
List_of_Not_Going_Out_episodes
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC
limestone; height: 4.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Ram in a Thicket; 2600–2400 BC; gold, copper, shell, lapis lazuli and limestone; height:
Sumer
Prehistoric cloud rat
thicket rat (G. dolichurus) Forest thicket rat (G. dryas) Giant thicket rat (G. gigas) Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus) Eastern rainforest thicket rat
Carpomys_dakal
Species of conifer
rooting, it forms yew thickets; hence, the epithet reptaneta (-etum means 'collective place of growth') and hence the common name, thicket yew. Unlike the typical
Taxus_brevifolia
Radio station in Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States
United States, serving southwestern Wyoming. The station is owned by Big Thicket Broadcasting of Wyoming, who identifies themselves as WyoRadio, which includes
KQSW
Species of rodent
thicket rat (G. dolichurus) Forest thicket rat (G. dryas) Giant thicket rat (G. gigas) Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus) Eastern rainforest thicket rat
Loring's_rat
Defined groups of plant communities with similar biotic and abiotic features
vegetation types, code SK: As a result of the 2018 update, the number of Albany thickets vegetation types increased to 44. The list below contains 45 types from
List of vegetation types of South Africa
List_of_vegetation_types_of_South_Africa
Species of rodent
The Mozambique thicket rat (Grammomys cometes) is an African species of rodent in the mouse family, Muridae. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa,
Mozambique_thicket_rat
THICKET
THICKET
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Stroud.German (Ströde) : topographic name from a dialect word meaning ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Bradshaw, for example in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + sceaga ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin, probably from the Old Norse byname Strútr (from a vocabulary word referring to a cone-like ornament on a headdress or cap). Alternatively it may be a nickname for an argumentative person, from Middle English strut(t) ‘quarrel’.German : topographic name from Middle High German struot, strūt ‘brush’, ‘thicket’, ‘swamp’, or a habitational name from any of several places named Struth with this word.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc); alternatively, it may derive from Old Norse Buski used as a personal name.Americanized spelling of German Busch.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and Staffordshire.
Surname or Lastname
English (Berkshire)
English (Berkshire) : habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly named with the Old English personal name Lufa (see Love 1) + Old English grÄf ‘grove’, ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English brake ‘thicket’, ‘bracken’ (see Brake) + feld ‘open country’, ‘cleared land’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket, Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe (Old English sceaga), or a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word. The English surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.Scottish and Irish : adopted as an English form of any of various Gaelic surnames derived from the personal name Sitheach ‘wolf’.Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.Chinese : variant of Shao.Early American merchants and revolutionary patriots were Nathaniel Shaw (b. 1735 in New London, CT) and Samuel Shaw (b. 1754 in Boston).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English brēmel, braemel ‘bramble’, ‘blackberry bush’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a blackberry thicket or possibly a nickname for a prickly person.English : variant of Bramhall.
Boy/Male
English
From the thicket.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Boscherville in Eure, France, named with Old Anglo-Norman French boschet ‘copse’, ‘thicket’ (a diminutive of Bois) + ville ‘settlement’, ‘town’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Middle English grove, Old English grÄf.English (Huguenot) : Americanized spelling of the French surname Le Grou(x) or Le Greux (see Groulx).North German form of Grob.North German : habitational name from any of several places named Grove or Groven in Schleswig-Holstein, which derive their name from Middle Low Germany grÅve ‘ditch’, ‘channel’. In some cases the name is a Dutch or Low German form of Grube.Altered form of German Graf.The surnames Grove and Groves are common mainly in the West Midlands. A Huguenot family who acquired the name Grove are descended from a certain Isaac Le Greux or Grou(x) or his brother. They fled from Tours in France in the late 17th century and settled in Spitalfields, London. Their children were known as Grou(x) or Grove; their grandchildren also used the form Grew; but their great-grandchildren, born at the end of the 18th century, were universally Grove.
Boy/Male
Celtic
From the thorn bush or thicket.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational names from any of a number of places called Hargrave or Hargreave, of which there are examples in Cheshire, Northamptonshire, and Suffolk; all are named with Old English hÄr ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’ + grÄf ‘grove’ or græfe ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various minor places in northwest England and Scotland, named with Old English blæc ‘black’ + sceaga ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Entrebus, apparently from an Old Norse personal name Eindri{dh}i, Andri{dh}i + Old Norse buski ‘bush’, ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for someone thought to resemble a brush (Middle English brusche, from Old French brosse), or a metonymic occupational name for a brush maker. It could also be from a related word, brusche ‘cut wood’, ‘branches lopped off trees’ (Old French brousse), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a forester or woodcutter, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a scrubby area of country, from Old French broce ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’ (Late Latin bruscia).Respelling of German Brusch or Brüsch, a topographic name from the field name Brüsch (Middle High German brüsch ‘heather’, ‘broom’ or ‘brush’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on a wooded hill, Old English hyrst, or habitational name from one of the various places named with this word, for example Hurst in Berkshire, Kent, Somerset, and Warwickshire, or Hirst in Northumberland and West Yorkshire.Irish : re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey, established in Ireland since the 13th century.German : topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland’, ‘thicket’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old English box ‘box tree’ (Latin buxus), in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, a habitational name from one of the places called Box, in Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, and Wiltshire, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked box wood, which is very hard and for this reason was used to make a variety of tools. In some cases it may even have been a nickname for a person with pale or yellow skin, for example as the result of jaundice, a reference to the color of box wood.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a clump of bushes or by a patch of bracken. Brake ‘thicket’ and brake ‘bracken’ were homonyms in Middle English. The first is from Old English bracu; the second is by folk etymology from northern Middle English braken, -en being taken as a plural ending. After the words had fallen together, their senses also became confused.North German : habitational name from any of several places so named, notably the town on the Weser, or a topographic name from Middle Low German brÄk ‘clearing’, ‘coppice’.Wilhelm Joseph Dietrich, Baron von Brake, of Hannover (Germany), is said to have settled in Nansemond, VA, about 1730. His son Johann Jacob (John) Brake was the progenitor of the VA and WV Brakes; another son, also named Jacob Brake, settled in Edgecombe Co., NC, in 1742, where he sired seven sons and two daughters.
THICKET
THICKET
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Mythological, Sanskrit, Telugu
A Character of Mahabharata; Son of King Shantanu
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Victorious
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Paradise; Garden or Paradise
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful or lively person, from Middle English bragge ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’, ‘active’, also ‘brave’, ‘proud’, ‘arrogant’ (of unknown origin).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Desired. Agreeable.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Tiger
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Mythological
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Tamil
Good mother
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Tamil
Lakshmi and Sarasvati
THICKET
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THICKET
v. t.
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
n.
A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
n.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
n.
A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
n.
A thicket; a small wood or grove.
n.
A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
n.
A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
prep.
Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.
n.
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
n.
Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
n.
A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
n.
A thicket of canes.
n.
A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
n.
Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
a.
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
n.
A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
n.
A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
n.
A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.
n.
An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
n.
A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.