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SWALE
swale
(noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Swale
A tributary of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England
The Swale, a channel between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland
A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, created in 1974 with its headquarters in Sittingbourne and named after the channel
Anagrams
• Wales, alews, lawes, sweal, wales, weals
Etymology 1
Noun
swale (plural swales)
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
Etymology 2
Noun
swale (plural swales)
(UK, dialect) A gutter in a candle.
Verb
swale (third-person singular simple present swales, present participle swaling, simple past and past participle swaled)
Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)
Anagrams
• Wales, alews, lawes, sweal, wales, weals
Source: Wiktionary
Swale, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. svalr cool, svala to cool.]
Definition: A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Swale, v. i. & t.
Definition: To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
Swale, n.
Definition: A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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