Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hurst

Hurst , noun

[Old English hurst, Anglo-Saxon hyrst; akin to Old High German hurst, horst, wood, thicket, German 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.