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Meaning of swale
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.
noun
- A gutter in a candle.
verb
- To burn slowly.
- To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
- To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
- To consume with fire; burn.
- To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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