Wolds

/ wəʊldz /

plural noun

1. the Wolds
   the Wolds a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary

Example Sentences

It stood amid thick woods, and there were miles of wind-blown wolds and hills around it.

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The river Hull, which rises in the wolds, and has a course of about thirty miles, flows through the older parts of the town.

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In going westward we come, at the village of North Cave, to the southern horn of the crescent of the Wolds.

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They passed out of the forest, across open wolds, and at last down to the river.

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A gentleman was riding over the Yorkshire Wolds late in the gloaming, when his horse started at something.

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