Welk vs Weld - What's the difference?
welk | weld |
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i.23:
* Milton
(dialectal) to soak, .
(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
To contract; to shorten.
* Spenser
possibly deriving from the (etyl) word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
As nouns the difference between welk and weld
is that welk is while weld is game (animals, birds).As a verb welk
is (obsolete) of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.welk
English
Verb
(en verb)- As gentle Shepheard in sweete euentide, / When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west [...].
- The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.
- Now sad winter welked hath the day.