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swale

[ UK /swˈe‍ɪl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)

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  • The village of Danvers was separated by only a mile or so of swale and swamp from Salem, a place that once rivaled Boston commercially, and in matters of black cats, and elderly women who aviated on broomsticks by night, set the world a pace. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
  • They made a saint because they had to, in those times, in that swale of loss. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
  • North, tumbling and rolling toward the Yellowstone in alternate "swale" and ridge, the treeless, upland prairie stretches to the horizon. Custer's Last Battle
  • One of the Bedouins explains: Swalem is a full-blooded Sinai camel, with smaller feet to cope with an uneven rocky terrain and a shaggy coat to cope with the cold found at altitude.
  • The undisturbed forest was criss-crossed by natural swales that drained runoff to a wetland in the valley north of the site.
  • 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. The Chaos Balance
  • Landscaping involved land leveling by lowering ridges and filling swales and was undertaken in connection with the construction of plazas and other special-use areas within most Mississippian centers.
  • Our present interest is in the wet fields of the farm, -- the cold, wet soil of an entire field, the swale lying between areas of well-drained land, the side of a field kept wet by seepage from higher land, -- and here the right solution of the troubling problem lies in underdrainage. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
  • Although adjacent to dense forests altered by silviculture, vegetation in the swale resembles that of boggy pine savannas or flatwoods.
  • Villagers are facing defeat in their fight to block plans for a huge housing development on a greenfield site at Brompton-on-Swale, near Richmond.
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