Swale

Word SWALE
Character 5
Hyphenation swale
Pronunciations /sweɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Swale"

What do we mean by swale?

A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy. noun

A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. noun

A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts. noun

A gutter in a candle. noun

Bleak; windy.

A shade, or shady spot. noun

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.” noun

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.

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. noun

To melt and waste away; to singe. See sweal, v. verb

A gutter in a candle. 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 that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. noun

A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop. noun

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. noun

A gutter in a candle. noun

A low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) noun

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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Swale

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The word "swale" in example sentences

a hill in the pasture, and I went to the top of this and saw the colt at the far side of the pasture in what we call the swale -- low, wet ground, where weeds abound. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (N/A)

Heathercrest Park boasts a mature, mostly oak forest connected to the Mimico Creek watershed, and a small "swale" - a low marshy strip - that feeds into Mimico Creek - both of intrinsic interest to TRCA. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beyond the swale was a narrow depression that might have been a stream or runoff channel in wetter years, and that channel led in a circling way around the west side of the semiplateau on which the mine complex stood, getting closer to the walls as it meandered south. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1997)

The first thing he saw as he crossed the swale was the big bays in the yard. ❋ Unknown (1904)

North, tumbling and rolling toward the Yellowstone in alternate "swale" and ridge, the treeless, upland prairie stretches to the horizon. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Down in the "swale," the wooden barracks, stables, quarters, and storehouses are all one tint of economical brown, brightened only by the hues of the flag that hangs high over the scene. ❋ Charles King (1888)

From a point far down the "swale," from behind the low bank of the stream bed, three rifle shots rang out on the crisp morning air. ❋ Charles King (1888)

It is situated in a low marshy 'swale' to the right of the Sweetwater river, and about forty miles from the South Pass. ❋ Unknown (1881)

But if you look to your Johnson, you will find, to your better satisfaction, that the name means "bird of porticos," or porches, from the Gothic "swale;" ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

For a time they would disappear behind trees or into a swale, only to reappear that much closer. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

Those beautiful swale streets cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a block, but that Mercer money sure would have gone a long way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had you failed, they would have seen us the moment we emerged from the swale. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

He took no heed of the course he pursued, so long as that course led him through the swale bottoms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A photograph of the site shows the agents' SUV parked in a grassy swale and surrounded by Mexican federal investigators. ❋ William Booth (2011)

Back in the 1990s I connected the downspouts that drain about 80 percent of my roof to a shallow swale I dug in a corner of my back yard and landscaped with native plants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

�And then as it was brought ashore, storms or whatever might blow it up into the swale back here and then the natural shifting of the sands, it would get buried. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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