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Wold vs Woold - What's the difference?

wold | woold |

As a noun wold

is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

As a verb woold is

to wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).

wold

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
  • (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
  • * Byron
    • And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
  • * Tennyson
    • The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .

    Usage notes

    * Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .

    Derived terms

    * Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----

    woold

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To wind a chain or rope around in order to strengthen (especially a mast or yard).

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