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weald

(wēld)

n. Chiefly British

1. A woodland.

2. An area of open rolling upland.

[From Weald, a once-forested area in southeast England, from Old English wald, weald, forest.]

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weald

(wiːld)

(Physical Geography) archaic Brit open or forested country

[Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wald, Old Norse vollr, probably related to wild]

Weald

(wiːld)

(Placename) the Weald a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested

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weald

(wild)

n.

wooded or uncultivated country.

[before 1150; Middle English weeld, Old English (West Saxon) weald forest; see wold¹]

Weald

(wild)

n.

The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.

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weald - an area of open or forested country

rural area, country - an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

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I am tempted to give one other case, the well-known one of the denudation of the Weald. Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Prof.

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William Caxton, as he himself tells us, was born in Kent in the Weald. But exactly where or when we do not know, although it may have been about the year 1420.

"For in France was I never, and was born and learned my English in Kent, in the Weald, where I doubt not is spoken as broad and rude English as in any place in England."

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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.

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1) The light-witted birds of the air, the beasts of the weald and the wood He traps with his woven snare, and the brood of the briny flood.

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About five miles from Dorking, looking over the Weald."

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Challenger's house was on the very edge of the hill, and from its southern face, in which was the study window, one looked across the vast stretch of the weald to where the gentle curves of the South Downs formed an undulating horizon.

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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.

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Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from Folkestone to Boulogne, until at last, first little wisps and then a veil of filmy cloud hid the prospect from his eyes.

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The maths and physics teacher at the Weald of Kent Grammar School for Girls in Tonbridge, Kent, was arrested after walking into a police station with his mother.

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25 August 2017 - London-based investment company UK Oil and Gas Investments plc (LSE: UKOG) has closed the acquisition of further Interest in Horse Hill-1 Oil Discovery and Licenses, Weald Basin, UK, the company said.