swale
(noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
• Wales, alews, lawes, sweal, wales, weals
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.
swale (plural swales)
(UK, dialect) A gutter in a candle.
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)
• 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
14 April 2025
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
