Category:Swale

Swale, n. Etym: [cf. Icel. svalr cool, svala to cool.]

Defn: a valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a Moor; a fen. [prov. Eng. & local, u.s.]

Swale Swale, v. i. & t.

Defn: to melt and waste away; to singe. See sweal, v.

Swale Swale, n.

Defn: a gutter in a candle. [prov. Eng.]