Swale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy.
  • n. A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  • n. A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
  • n. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
  • n. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
  • n. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
  • n. A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
  • n. A gutter in a candle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
  • v. To melt and waste away; to singe. See sweal, v.
  • n. A gutter in a candle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shade, or shady spot.
  • n. A low place; a slight depression in a region in general nearly level, especially one of the lower tracts of what is called in the western United States “rolling prairie.”
  • Bleak; windy.
  • To melt and run down, as from heat; show the effects of great heat, whether by melting or by burning slowly.
  • To burn, whether by singeing or by causing to melt or to run down; especially, to dress, as an animal killed for food, by singeing off the hair.
  • n. A gutter in a candle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    trough   
    Variant
    sweal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    moor    fen   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    intervale    hummock    savanna    riverbank    acclivity    hillock    hummocks    ridgeline    table-land    eminences