SWALE

swale

(noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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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