Associations to the word «Swale»

SWALE, noun. A low tract of moist or marshy land.

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

SWALE, noun. A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

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

SWALE, 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.

SWALE, noun. (UK) (dialect) A gutter in a candle.

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

SWALE, noun. A low area (especially a marshy area between ridges).