Weald

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  • noun. A woodland.
  • noun. An area of open rolling upland.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The name given in England to an oval-shaped area, bounded by a line topographically well marked by an escarpment of the Chalk, which begins at Folkestone Hill, near the Straits of Dover, and passes through the counties of Kent, Surrey, Hants, and Sussex, meeting the sea again at Beachy Head
  • noun. Any open country.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
  • noun. the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an area of open or forested country
  • Word Usage
    "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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