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Definition swale

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).

Noun

swale (plural swales)

  1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  3. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  4. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
  5. 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

See sweal.

Noun

swale (plural swales)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
Verb

swale (third-person singular simple present swales, present participle swaling, simple past and past participle swaled)

  1. Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)

Results 432 Words with the letters SWALE

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10 letter words with the letters SWALE 
9 letter words with the letters SWALE 
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6 letter words with the letters SWALE 
AWLESS 10
SWALES 10
WALERS 10
WALIES 10
WARSLE 10
WEALDS 11
WEASEL 10
WHALES 12
WHEALS 12
5 letter words with the letters SWALE 
4 letter words with the letters SWALE 
ALES 5
AWES 7
AWLS 8
LASE 5
LAWS 8
LEAS 5
SALE 5
SEAL 5
SLAW 8
SLEW 8
WAES 7
WALE 8
WEAL 8
3 letter words with the letters SWALE 
ALE 4
ALS 4
AWE 6
AWL 7
ELS 4
LAS 4
LAW 7
LEA 4
SAE 3
SAL 4
SAW 6
SEA 3
SEL 4
SEW 6
WAE 6
WAS 6
2 letter words with the letters SWALE 
AE 2
AL 3
AS 2
AW 5
EL 3
ES 2
LA 3
WE 5

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