Noun: keld
Sample Sentences
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Than thou to'nns [turns] doon o' t'left hand an' t'keld's a matter o' tunty yards doon t'bank. [1870, Atkinson, Lost, page xxii]
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[…] locusts and varying climatic conditions ravage the kelds, and much of the land is bad or indifferent. [1898, Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, volumes 1-3, page 170]
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On the outer margins of the Wolds, however, there are […] Foul Sike, Keld Sike, The Kelds, Cold Kelds, Keld Ings, The Swang (a marsh or spongey ground) and The Whams at Settrington, […] [1898, Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, volume 6, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like keld
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse kelda (“spring”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kelda'.