Weald

n.

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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.

Noun

1.

weald - an area of open or forested country

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