SWALE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

2.
v.

To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

3.
n.

A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]


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