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1.
wẹ̄lde
adj.
6 quotations in 1 sense
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Powerful, mighty, great [last quot. could also be construed as
wild(e
adj.].
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wēldish
adj.
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(a) Of lumber: originating in the forest (perh. the great forested area of Kent and Sussex known as the Weald), native;
weldish bord
(b) of cloth: ?homespun, coarse; ?produced in the Weald;
weldish
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