Noun: wield
| Singular | wield |
| Plural | wields |
Sample Sentences
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What boots it if I beat the heathen home,
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And fold the mountains in my wield, and fire […] [1872, George Francis Savage-Armstrong, The tragedy of Israel, volume 2, page 64:]
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[…] telling him of the treasures concealed in the cave, of the mysterious ring and tarnhelmet, possessing which he can hold the wield of the world. [1887, Richard Wagner, Siegfried:]
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All wealth in my wield is, I know by my wit […] [1968, John Allen, Masters of British Drama, page 32:]
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“Trust me, I will make them listen,” he hissed and for the first time, he used his wield fallaciously, because instead of giving life, he absorbed it from the tree. [2019, Lele Iturrioz, Summer:]
Nouns inflected like wield
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 Middle English welde, from Old English *wield, ġewield (“power, control, dominion”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldi, from Proto-Germanic *waldiz (“power, might, control”). See: Middle English Nouns '
welde'.