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Rareswale
The correct spelling is swale.
How to pronounce swale
noun
IPA: /sweɪl/
Say it like: Swa-le
The correct spelling is swale. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- 2.A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- 3.A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
- 4.A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
- 5.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.
verb
- 1.To burn slowly.
- 2.To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
- 3.To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
- 4.To consume with fire; burn.
- 5.To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
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