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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 would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival. Conqueror's Moon
  • Glassed swale, which is widely used in urban stormwater management is an ecological facility of rainwater collection, convey and purification.
  • If you choose this as your option, then swales, culverts, and drain fields may need to be figured into your plans.
  • However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda 'is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A. ehrenbergiana growing in shallow sandy depressions, rock fissures and in drainage swales on the gravel plains. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
  • Mr Swales said they were also concerned about surrounding businesses as the blaze started to spread and set alight a fourth floor fire escape door on an adjoining building.
  • But if you look to your Johnson, you will find, to your better satisfaction, that the name means "bird of porticos," or porches, from the Gothic "swale; Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
  • At the locality in question, cast-dipping beds of the Middle Permian Park City and Phosphoria Formations form a succession of low ridges and intervening swales.
  • Stormwater harvesting methods including swales (earth contour banks), underground Atlantis soakage tanks and mulch supplied by Indigenous Landscapes.
  • For thousands more questions and answers take a trip through the Knowledge archive"Kenya Premier League side KCB fired their manager, Leonard Swaleh, last week via a text message," writes Too Viçtor Qip. Which footballers are the most eco-friendly? | The Knowledge
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