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weald
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weald \Weald\, n. [AS. See Wold.] A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald,
And heard the spirits of the waste and weald
Moan as she fled.
--Tennyson.
Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English (West Saxon) weald "forest, woodland," specifically the forest between the North and South Downs in Sussex, Kent, and Surrey; a West Saxon variant of Anglian wald (see wold). Related: Wealden.
Wiktionary
n. A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
WordNet
n. an area of open or forested country
Wikipedia
The Weald is an area in South East England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. It has three separate parts: the sandstone "High Weald" in the centre; the clay "Low Weald" periphery; and the Greensand Ridge, which stretches around the north and west of the Weald and includes its highest points. The Weald once was covered with forest, and its name, Old English in origin, signifies woodland. The term is still used today, as scattered farms and villages sometimes refer to the Weald in their names.
The Weald is a wooded area between the North and South Downs in South East England.
Weald may also refer to the following places in England
- Weald, Kent
- Weald, Oxfordshire
- Harrow Weald, London
- Lower Weald, Middle Weald and Upper Weald, hamlets in Calverton, Buckinghamshire
- North Weald, Essex
- Weald Country Park, Essex
In literature
- A land called the Weald is the fictional setting of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt
Usage examples of "weald".
Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.
These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
A perfect stretch of trackage lay ahead, straight across the Weald of Kent.
The family was seated in the V V counting-house of the High Weald go down Sarah Courtney tried to show her disapproval in sternness, but an expression of resignation was not entirely hidden by her lowered lids.
Eudena and Ugh-lomi fled from the people of Uya towards the fir-clad mountains of the Weald, across the forests of sweet chestnutand the grass-clad chalkland, and hid themselves at last in the gorge of the river between the chalk cliffs, men were few and their squatting-places far between.
Back in the stables on High Weald Jim rubbed Drumfire down, rather than letting one of the grooms do the job, then left him with a manger of crushed corn, over which he had dribbled molasses.
If, then, we knew the rate at which the sea commonly wears away a line of cliff of any given height, we could measure the time requisite to have denuded the Weald.
Glimmering fields, And wakening wealds, And rising lark, And meadows dark, And idle rills, And labouring mills, And far-distant hills Of the fawn and the doe.
He could aim for Weald itself, allowing, of course, for the lag in the apparent motion of its image because of the limited speed of light.
He made the third of his students identify Weald in the celestial globe containing hundreds of millions of stars, and get on course in overdrive toward it.
Then there were two hundred pounds of salt for preserving venison, ten pounds of pepper, a large box of strong curry powder, sacks of rice, flour and maize meal, bags of spices and bottles of flavouring essences for stews and cakes, bottles of jam and kegs of pickles from the kitchens of High Weald.
The West Weald and Border Weald run up against the Broken Bone hradani.
Tom and Dorian signed the deed of transfer of High Weald and, grinning triumphantly, van de Velde handed over an irrevocable letter of credit drawn on the Bank of Batavia for an amount less than half of what he had been prepared to pay for it only a few months before.