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third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded
(UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit. examples
plural walds
(UK dialectal) Power; strength. examples
(UK dialectal) Command; control; possession. examples
Forest; woods. quotations examples
… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald-elven,…
1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124
the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road
1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar, page 16
MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here.
1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1