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weald
/wild/
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What does weald mean?
proper noun
- The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
- A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3002).
- Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England; possibly still used as a synonym.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (archaic) A forest or wood.
- (archaic) An open country.
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IPA pronunciation
/wild/
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I am tempted to give one other case, the well-known one of the denudation of the Weald.
And all gentlemen, from the Weald of Kent to the Vale of Blackmore, shrugged their shoulders mysteriously, and said, “Poor fellow!”
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In Henry VIII.'s reign, several remarkable statutes were passed relating to certain worn-out and impracticable roads in Sussex and the Weald of Kent.
Up to a certain point, the clearing of the Weald of its dense growth of underwood had been of advantage, by affording better opportunities for the operations of agriculture.
Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable “weald,” for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.