Usually means: Depression that collects and directs water.
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  1. swale: Merriam-Webster
  2. swale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swale, swale: Wordnik
  7. Swale, swale: Wiktionary
  8. swale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. swale: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swale: Dictionary.com
  12. swale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Swale (geographic feature), Swale (geographical feature), Swale (horse), Swale (landform), Swale, The Swale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Swale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. swale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Swale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. swale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. SWALE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. swale: FreeDictionary.org
  20. swale: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. swale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. swale: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Swale (district), swale: Encyclopedia

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  1. swale: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  2. swale: Golfer's Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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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