Crossword clues for swale
swale
- Marshy place
- Low tract of land
- Low, marshy land tract
- Depressed area
- Marshy ground
- Low area (1984)
- Swampy tract
- Low land
- Shallow depression
- Marshy hollow
- Low bit of land
- Marshland tract
- Low, wet tract
- Low marshy area
- Wet stretch
- Swampy lowland
- Son of Seattle Slew
- Soggy lowland
- Marshy land
- Low, marshy area
- Low wet stretch
- Low marshy depression
- Kentucky Derby winner sired by Seattle Slew
- Ditch for runoff
- A wet, marshy hollow
- 1984 Kentucky Derby winner
- Low area of land
- Low spot of land
- Low-lying area
- Low place
- Wet lowland
- Low-lying wetland
- Low marshland
- Marshy tract
- Low-lying land
- Low, moist area
- Marshy valley
- Marshy lowland
- Geographic depression
- Wet depression
- Small swamp
- Marsh depression
- Marshy meadow
- Derby winner: 1984
- Hollow in a marsh
- Low, moist place
- Small meadow or swamp
- Bogland
- Low-lying marsh area
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweal \Sweal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swealed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Swealing.] [OE. swelen to burn, AS. swelan; akin to G.
schwelen to burn slowly, schw["u]l sultry, Icel. sv[ae]la a
thick smoke.]
To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste
away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.]
--Sir
W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"low, hollow place, often boggy," 1580s, special use of Scottish swaill "low, hollow place," or East Anglian dialectal swale "shady place" (mid-15c.); both probably from Old Norse svalr "cool," from Proto-Germanic *swalaz. A local word in England, in U.S. given broad application, especially to the lower tracts of the prairie and recently to landscaping features in suburban developments.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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. Etymology 2
n. (context UK dialect English) A gutter in a candle. vb. (alternative form of sweal nodot=yes English) (melt and waste away, or singe)
Wikipedia
Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England and is bounded by Medway to the west, Canterbury to the east, Ashford to the south and Maidstone to the south west. Its council is based in Sittingbourne. The district is named after the narrow channel called The Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey, and which occupies the central part of the district.
The Roman Watling Street passed through the area, as witness the straightness of the A2 main road, now by-passed by the M2 motorway. Apart from the northern coast of the Isle of Sheppey, and the town of Sittingbourne, it is a mainly rural borough, containing a high proportion of the UK's apple, pear, cherry and plum orchards (the North Kent Fruit Belt), as well as many of its remaining hop gardens. Most of the southern half of the Borough lies within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, whilst Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey forms the concluding part of the Thames Gateway growth area.
The district was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, from the Borough of Faversham; the Borough of Queenborough-in-Sheppey, which covered the whole of Sheppey; the Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District; and Swale Rural District.
Swale railway station is at the southern end of the Kingsferry Bridge.
There are four towns in the borough: Sittingbourne and Faversham on the mainland, and Sheerness and Queenborough on Sheppey.
A swale is a low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy. The term can refer to a natural landscape feature or a human-created one. Artificial swales are often designed to manage water runoff, filter pollutants, and increase rainwater infiltration.
The swale concept has also been popularized as a rainwater harvesting and soil conservation strategy by Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton and other advocates of permaculture. In this context it usually refers to a water-harvesting ditch on contour. Another term used is contour bund .
Swales as used in permaculture are designed to slow and capture runoff by spreading it horizontally across the landscape (along an elevation contour line), facilitating runoff infiltration into the soil. This type of swale is created by digging a ditch on contour and piling the dirt on the downhill side of the ditch to create a berm. In arid climates, vegetation (existing or planted) along the swale can benefit from the concentration of runoff. Trees and shrubs along the swale can provide shade which decreases water evaporation, however they increase transpiration, so their net effect on the hydrologic cycle is probably to reduce infiltration.
The term swale or "beach swale" is also used to describe long, narrow, usually shallow troughs between ridges or sandbars on a beach, that run parallel to the shoreline.
Swale is a local government district in Kent, England.
Swale may also refer to:
- The Swale, a strip of water separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey, England
- River Swale, in North Yorkshire, England
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Swale (landform), a low tract of land
- Bioswale, designed to remove silt and pollution
- Swale (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
Swale (April 21, 1981 – June 17, 1984) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. He is best known for winning the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes in 1984. He died eight days after his win in the latter race.
Usage examples of "swale".
The city of Harmony is under direct CoDominium rule, with Governor Swale as its head.
That is clear, but Governor Swale also holds a commission as planetary executive, which in theory subordinates Colonel Harrington to him.
In the past, Governor Swale and Colonel Harrington were agreed that the only way to do that was to extend CoDominium rule to these areas along the river.
Governor Swale received word that the River Pack wishes to reopen negotiations.
Governor Swale was out in the newly taken territory trying to set up a government that would last.
Tomorrow Governor Hugo Swale, Hisself, is coming to pay a visit to the gallant troops of the 501st.
Hugo Swale sat politely, trying not to show any distress as the pipers thundered past him.
As Seeton said, Swale had only a couple of companies of militia with him, yet the siege had been a stalemate.
Governor Swale was too eager to recognize them as a legitimate local government.
I expect Governor Swale will shortly be on his way to a post as First Secretary on a mining asteroid.
In the swale to the left of the road, on a bluff overlooking the river were a deserted dwelling and a shed with a half-collapsed roof.
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.
Syskar had clearly paid off, Nylan reflected as they rode back down the gully and up toward the swale where the rest of the squad waited.
Tonsar turned his mount toward the curving swale from where the rest of the squad would attack.
With the muffled impact of slow hoofs on grass and dirt, the squad eased their mounts and the pack animals through the lower swale between the two hills and out onto the flat below the mining camp walls, moving quietly and steadily toward the northwest corner.