swale
IPA: swˈeɪɫ
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 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
verb
- Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe) [(intransitive) To burn slowly.]
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Examples of "swale" in Sentences
- The Swale was originally part of a river.
- I have changed the district from Swale to Medway.
- The swales are the depressions between the ridges.
- It stands by the River Swale in the Vale of Mowbray.
- Sheerness is in the local government district of Swale.
- Faversham is within the Swale local government district.
- Iwade is the nearest settlement to Swale railway station.
- Swale railway station is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge.
- The Earl was buried in the church in the village of Sheldwich in Swale.
- Crouch is a hamlet in the Swale District, in the county of Kent, England.