swale

IPA: swˈeɪɫ

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 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.
(UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
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

Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe) [(intransitive) To burn slowly.]

Examples of "swale" in Sentences

The first thing he saw as he crossed the swale was the big bays in the yard.
It is situated in a low marshy 'swale' to the right of the Sweetwater river, and about forty miles from the South Pass.
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.
North, tumbling and rolling toward the Yellowstone in alternate "swale" and ridge, the treeless, upland prairie stretches to the horizon.
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;"
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.
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.
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.
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.