Wield vs Weald - What's the difference?

As a verb wield

is (label) to command, rule over; to possess or own.

(british) the physiographic area in south-east england situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the north and the south downs.

(en verb)

(label) To command, rule over; to possess or own.

*, Bk.V, Ch.7:

*:There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.

(label) To control, to guide or manage.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:

*:With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends.

To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.

To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.

(en noun)

A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.

* Tennyson

Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.

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