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What does swale mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word swale? Here's what it means.

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). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
Noun
  1. (Britain, dialect) A gutter in a candle.
Verb
  1. Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)
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