wold
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moorAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
Meaning
2 senses(archaic, regional)An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete)A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
- a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
Origin
From Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, from Old EnglishFrom Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest.
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