Definitions from Wiktionary (swale)
▸ noun: A low tract of moist or marshy land.
▸ noun: A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
▸ noun: A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
▸ noun: Bioswale, 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.
▸ noun: A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
▸ noun: (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
▸ noun: A river, a tributary of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England.
▸ noun: The Swale, a channel between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland.
▸ noun: A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, created in 1974 with its headquarters in Sittingbourne and named after the channel.
▸ verb: Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”) [(intransitive) To burn slowly.]
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▸ noun: A low tract of moist or marshy land.
▸ noun: A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
▸ noun: A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
▸ noun: Bioswale, 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.
▸ noun: A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
▸ noun: (UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
▸ noun: A river, a tributary of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England.
▸ noun: The Swale, a channel between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland.
▸ noun: A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, created in 1974 with its headquarters in Sittingbourne and named after the channel.
▸ verb: Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”) [(intransitive) To burn slowly.]
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