weald Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an area of open or forested country

WordNet

Weald noun
Etymology
AS. See Wold.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913