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Meaning
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.
●
Bioswale, 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.
●
A
shallow
, usually
grassy
depression
sloping
downward
from a
plains
upland
meadow
or level
vegetated
ridgetop.
●
In British English:
A
gutter
in a candle.
Verb
●
Alternative form of
sweal
(melt and
waste away
, or singe)
Name
●
A
river
, a
tributary
of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England.
●
The Swale, a
channel
between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland
●
A
local government
district
with
borough
status
in Kent, England,
created
in 1974 with its
headquarters
in Sittingbourne and
named
after the channel
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