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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)
- 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
See sweal.
Noun
swale (plural swales)
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)
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