swalen.¹

Brit.

/sweɪl/, U.S.

/sweɪl/

Forms: Middle English swayl, 1500s swaill, swaile, swaule, swawle, 1500s–1600s swall(e, 1700s–1800s swale, 1800s swaul.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. If the original meaning was a pliant ‘swaying’ piece of wood, the two types swail , swall , may represent an Old English *swæg(e)l , *swagol , < swag- , cognate with Scandinavian svag- in Norwegian svaga (see swag v.); compare Middle English hail , haul (Old English hægel , hagol ), hail n.¹

dialect.

Timber in laths, boards, or planks; planking; also, a lath, plank.For specialized local uses see quots. 1841, 1903.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > collectively

swale1325

plancher1408

planking1432

sawboard1495

planchery1519

plank1559

planchingc1600

deala1618

1325 Rolls of Parl. I. 434/2 Qu'ele peusse pur swayl & autres busoignes necessaries de la meson, abatre en la dit boys cent rores.

1505–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 103 Pro sarracione le swailles pro eisdem [domibus porcorum].

1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 80 Pro sarracione ½ rod in swalles 10 d.

1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 130 1 lytyll swall and 12 bords.

1557 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 80 For swaile for a saunce belle..ij d.

1574 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 249 Foure swawles and foure trists, v^s.

1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 47 iij swalles for a horse baye.

1597 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 740 For sawinge Sarkyn boordes and Swalles for the churche and the new bridge.

1600 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 222 A swalle of timber lyinge at Beckwithe.

1640 Gateshead Church Bks. in Northumbld. Gloss. at Swale For 12 swalls for formes for the church.

1648 in Archaeologia Æliana (1892) 15 252 For 20 Swalls to be scaffolds.

1799 Naval Chron. 1 176 Stepping down the side of the Yarmouth hulk at Plymouth, he fell against the swale of the vessel.

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 582 Swale, a piece of wood going from an upright shaft in an oatmeal mill to one of the wheels.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. Swauls, the outside bars in the frame of the bottom of a cart. w. Yks.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

swalen.²

Brit.

/sweɪl/, U.S.

/sweɪl/

Forms: Also 1600s swill, 1800s swail.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin, and related to Old Norse svalar feminine plural (Middle Swedish svali , Swedish svale , Norwegian sval ) balcony or gallery along the side of a house, Old Norse svalr cool (see swale adj.), Old Norse (Middle Swedish, Swedish, Norwegian) svala to cool.

dialect, chiefly East Anglian.

Shade; a shady place. Also, the cool, the cold.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > overshadowing > shady place

shadowing placea1382

swalec1440

shadow1526

umbracle1653

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > coolness

coolnessOE

refroidourc1475

coola1500

coolth1547

frescour1638

swalec1700

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 481/2 Swale (P. or shadowe), umbra, umbraculum, estiva.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 62 Downe she sate among the trees which gaue a plesant swale.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxiii. 4) David alludeth to y^e dark swales or the dens of wyld beastes.

1669 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. Swill, used in the Northern parts for shade, or shadow.

c1700 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 Swale, cold or dank air; as, he lies in the swale, i.e. in the open cold air.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 139 Granny there was on the bench, Coolly sitting in the swail.

1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xxv. 299 Turn your horse out to grass..in the swale of the morn and the evening.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

swalen.³

Brit.

/sweɪl/, U.S.

/sweɪl/

Forms: Also 1500s Scottish swaill, swayll, 1800s swail, Scottish swyle.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Probably conveyed to America from the eastern counties, where it is still in use.

local.

A hollow, low place; esp. U.S., a moist or marshy depression in a tract of land, esp. in the midst of rolling prairie. Also (U.S.) a hollow between adjacent sand-ridges.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]

marsheOE

fenc888

sladec893

moorOE

mossOE

marshlandlOE

lay-fena1225

lay-mirea1225

moor-fenc1275

flosha1300

strother?a1300

marish1327

carrc1330

waterlanda1382

gaseync1400

quaba1425

paludec1425

mersec1440

sumpa1450

palus?1473

wash1483

morass1489

oozea1500

bog?a1513

danka1522

fell1538

soga1552

Camarine1576

gog1583

swale1584

sink1594

haga1600

mere1609

flata1616

swamp1624

pocosin1634

frogland1651

slash1652

poldera1669

savannah1671

pond-land1686

red bog1686

swang1691

slack1719

flowa1740

wetland1743

purgatory1760

curragh1780

squall1784

marais1793

vlei1793

muskeg1806

bog-pit1820

prairie1820

fenhood1834

pakihi1851

terai1852

sponge1856

takyr1864

boglet1869

sinkhole1885

grimpen1902

sphagnum bog1911

blanket bog1939

string bog1959

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun]

pathOE

slackc1400

navela1425

trough1513

nook1555

falling1565

swale1584

hella1653

depression1665

holl1701

sag1727

dip1783

recession1799

holler1845

sike1859

sitch1888

sulcus1901

1584 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1888) 239/2 Keipand the stripe quhill it enter in Beildeis swaill, and keipand and ascendand upwith the said swaill quhill it cum to the littill stane calsay.

1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 324 Hauldand vp the said burne to the roche swaill of Kynmvndie.

1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 324 Quhair thair is ane great mother swayll on the south syde of the said Blackburne.

1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 326 Thairfra doun the said northsyd of the great swayll.

1667 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1894) IV. 135 He may cutt in a place called the Swale, adjoyning to the Ceader Swampe.

1805 T. Bigelow Jrnl. Tour Niagra Falls (1876) 37 A swale or valley affords..copious springs of water.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxxvii. 193 The swales, or rich hollows, lying behind the uplands, by which latter they are separated from the meadows.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie v Fire low, boys—level into the swales, for the red skins are settling to the very earth!

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ii. 186 Stumps and cradle heaps, mud-holes and miry swails, succeeded one another.

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 188 Swyle, a bog.

1874 Trippe in Coues Birds N.W. 223 An open park-like tract of rolling, grassy prairie, interspersed with groves of pines, low hills, and wet, marshy swales.

1894 Dial. Notes 1 334 Swale, low land between sand ridges on the coast beaches [of New Jersey].

1945 H. N. Fisk in Geol. Investig. Alluvial Valley of Lower Mississippi River (U.S. Mississippi River Commission) 20 The point bar, the composite accretion within a bend, consists of an alternation of sand bar ridges, capped with thin top-stratum, and swales underlain by clay plugs.

1976 K. W. Butzer Geomorphol. from Earth viii. 157 Point bars, developed as a series of low levees on the inside meander bends, form arcuate or parallel ridges and swales.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. viii. iv. 153 These swale-runnels are often deceptive.

1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 771/1 That course led him through the swale bottoms.

C2.

swale-grass n.

ΚΠ

1873–4 2nd Rep. Vermont Board Agric. 189 I would commence about the 20th of June,..cutting..the lightest last, unless the lightest were swale grass.

swale hay n.

ΚΠ

1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 19 Considerable quantities of fresh meadow or swale hay is cut.

1911 Canadian Newspaper Their crop is swale hay; in other words swamp grass.

swale-land n.

ΚΠ

1893 H. Frederic Copperhead (1894) 176 The original Turnbulls had..drained the swail-lands, and turned the entire place from a wilderness into a flourishing and fertile home for civilised people.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

swalen.⁴

Brit.

/sweɪl/, U.S.

/sweɪl/

Etymology: Origin uncertain: compare sweal n., and swill n.¹ 10 in Eng. Dial. Dict.

southern dialect local.

A small broom or brush without a stick for a handle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom

besomc1000

bast broom1357

brush1377

broom14..

sweepc1475

duster1575

bristle brush1601

broom-besom1693

flag-broom1697

stock-brush1700

whisk1745

birch-broom1747

hair-broom1753

spry1796

corn-broomc1810

pope's head1824

whisker1825

sweeping-brusha1828

swish1844

spoke-brush1851

whisk broom1857

Turk's head1859

wisp1875

tube-brush1877

bass-broom?1881

crumb-brush1884

dusting-brush1907

palmetto brush1913

suede brush1915

swale1949

1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iii. vii. 123 Some besoms are made without sticks. These are known as swales, an interesting word meaning ‘a small bright fire enough to boil a kettle’. Swales are used to brush the flakes from steel-plate.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 100 Like the besom, it has a head of birch..but is without a handle and is called a swale.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

swaleadj.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse svalr.

Etymology: < Old Norse svalr (Middle Swedish, Swedish, Norwegian sval ) cool: compare swale n.²

northern dialect.

Cool, chill.

ΚΠ

1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 47 Swale, windy, cold, bleak.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

swalev.

Brit.

/sweɪl/, U.S.

/sweɪl/

Etymology: apparently of dialect origin (see swail in Eng. Dial. Dict.); probably frequentative < sway v. + -le suffix, but parallels are wanting. Compare Shropshire dialect swayl-pole = sway-pole.

intransitive. To move or sway up and down or from side to side.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway

wawc888

swang1340

waltera1375

swayve1377

swayc1500

nod1578

weave1596

showd1599

swing1607

swag1608

slinger1767

wintle1786

swale1820

daven1977

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 676 Here's a jerked feather that swales in a bonnet.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 781 With his eternal sidling and sliding about,..and swaling with his coat-tails.

1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous I. iv. 123 The great plumed hat..flapped and swaled over my eyes.

Derivatives

ˈswaling n. and adj.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > swaying

swimblec1386

swagging1566

rolling1578

swaling1824

swaying1837

sway1846

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > swaying

nodding1693

rolling1753

swaling1824

swaying1847

swingy1943

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [adjective] > guttering or guttered

swaling1824

guttered1860

guttering1862

1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 86 He drops a wing..with a swaling and graceful amorousness.

1827 W. M. Praed in Port Folio 22 360/2 As the swaling wherry settles down.

1895 A. Dobson Sundial in Poems xi A soldier gallant.., Swinging a beaver with a swaling plume.

ˈswalingly adv. with a swaying motion.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adverb] > swaying

swalingly1822

swayingly1854

a-sway1858

swingingly1882

weavingly1945

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 782 Treading the street with his corn-troubled toes,..swalingly goes the kind Cockney King.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : swealswalen.

also refers to : swealswalev.

n.¹1325

n.²c1440

n.³1584

n.⁴1949

adj.1674

v.1820

单词	swale
释义	swalen.¹ Brit. /sweɪl/, U.S. /sweɪl/ Forms: Middle English swayl, 1500s swaill, swaile, swaule, swawle, 1500s–1600s swall(e, 1700s–1800s swale, 1800s swaul. Etymology: Of obscure origin. If the original meaning was a pliant ‘swaying’ piece of wood, the two types swail , swall , may represent an Old English swæg(e)l , swagol , < swag- , cognate with Scandinavian svag- in Norwegian svaga (see swag v.); compare Middle English hail , haul (Old English hægel , hagol ), hail n.¹ dialect. Timber in laths, boards, or planks; planking; also, a lath, plank.For specialized local uses see quots. 1841, 1903. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > collectively swale1325 plancher1408 planking1432 sawboard1495 planchery1519 plank1559 planchingc1600 deala1618 1325 Rolls of Parl. I. 434/2 Qu'ele peusse pur swayl & autres busoignes necessaries de la meson, abatre en la dit boys cent rores. 1505–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 103 Pro sarracione le swailles pro eisdem [domibus porcorum]. 1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 80 Pro sarracione ½ rod in swalles 10 d. 1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 130 1 lytyll swall and 12 bords. 1557 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 80 For swaile for a saunce belle..ij d. 1574 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 249 Foure swawles and foure trists, v^s. 1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 47 iij swalles for a horse baye. 1597 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 740 For sawinge Sarkyn boordes and Swalles for the churche and the new bridge. 1600 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 222 A swalle of timber lyinge at Beckwithe. 1640 Gateshead Church Bks. in Northumbld. Gloss. at Swale For 12 swalls for formes for the church. 1648 in Archaeologia Æliana (1892) 15 252 For 20 Swalls to be scaffolds. 1799 Naval Chron. 1 176 Stepping down the side of the Yarmouth hulk at Plymouth, he fell against the swale of the vessel. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 582 Swale, a piece of wood going from an upright shaft in an oatmeal mill to one of the wheels. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. Swauls, the outside bars in the frame of the bottom of a cart. w. Yks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). swalen.² Brit. /sweɪl/, U.S. /sweɪl/ Forms: Also 1600s swill, 1800s swail. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin, and related to Old Norse svalar feminine plural (Middle Swedish svali , Swedish svale , Norwegian sval ) balcony or gallery along the side of a house, Old Norse svalr cool (see swale adj.), Old Norse (Middle Swedish, Swedish, Norwegian) svala to cool. dialect, chiefly East Anglian. Shade; a shady place. Also, the cool, the cold. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > overshadowing > shady place shadowing placea1382 swalec1440 shadow1526 umbracle1653 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > coolness coolnessOE refroidourc1475 coola1500 coolth1547 frescour1638 swalec1700 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 481/2 Swale (P. or shadowe), umbra, umbraculum, estiva. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 62 Downe she sate among the trees which gaue a plesant swale. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxiii. 4) David alludeth to y^e dark swales or the dens of wyld beastes. 1669 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. Swill, used in the Northern parts for shade, or shadow. c1700 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 Swale, cold or dank air; as, he lies in the swale, i.e. in the open cold air. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 139 Granny there was on the bench, Coolly sitting in the swail. 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xxv. 299 Turn your horse out to grass..in the swale of the morn and the evening. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). swalen.³ Brit. /sweɪl/, U.S. /sweɪl/ Forms: Also 1500s Scottish swaill, swayll, 1800s swail, Scottish swyle. Etymology: Origin unknown. Probably conveyed to America from the eastern counties, where it is still in use. local. A hollow, low place; esp. U.S., a moist or marshy depression in a tract of land, esp. in the midst of rolling prairie. Also (U.S.) a hollow between adjacent sand-ridges. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] pathOE slackc1400 navela1425 trough1513 nook1555 falling1565 swale1584 hella1653 depression1665 holl1701 sag1727 dip1783 recession1799 holler1845 sike1859 sitch1888 sulcus1901 1584 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1888) 239/2 Keipand the stripe quhill it enter in Beildeis swaill, and keipand and ascendand upwith the said swaill quhill it cum to the littill stane calsay. 1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 324 Hauldand vp the said burne to the roche swaill of Kynmvndie. 1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 324 Quhair thair is ane great mother swayll on the south syde of the said Blackburne. 1615 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 326 Thairfra doun the said northsyd of the great swayll. 1667 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1894) IV. 135 He may cutt in a place called the Swale, adjoyning to the Ceader Swampe. 1805 T. Bigelow Jrnl. Tour Niagra Falls (1876) 37 A swale or valley affords..copious springs of water. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxxvii. 193 The swales, or rich hollows, lying behind the uplands, by which latter they are separated from the meadows. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie v Fire low, boys—level into the swales, for the red skins are settling to the very earth! 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ii. 186 Stumps and cradle heaps, mud-holes and miry swails, succeeded one another. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 188 Swyle, a bog. 1874 Trippe in Coues Birds N.W. 223 An open park-like tract of rolling, grassy prairie, interspersed with groves of pines, low hills, and wet, marshy swales. 1894 Dial. Notes 1 334 Swale, low land between sand ridges on the coast beaches [of New Jersey]. 1945 H. N. Fisk in Geol. Investig. Alluvial Valley of Lower Mississippi River (U.S. Mississippi River Commission) 20 The point bar, the composite accretion within a bend, consists of an alternation of sand bar ridges, capped with thin top-stratum, and swales underlain by clay plugs. 1976 K. W. Butzer Geomorphol. from Earth viii. 157 Point bars, developed as a series of low levees on the inside meander bends, form arcuate or parallel ridges and swales. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. viii. iv. 153 These swale-runnels are often deceptive. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 771/1 That course led him through the swale bottoms. C2. swale-grass n. ΚΠ 1873–4 2nd Rep. Vermont Board Agric. 189 I would commence about the 20th of June,..cutting..the lightest last, unless the lightest were swale grass. swale hay n. ΚΠ 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 19 Considerable quantities of fresh meadow or swale hay is cut. 1911 Canadian Newspaper Their crop is swale hay; in other words swamp grass. swale-land n. ΚΠ 1893 H. Frederic Copperhead (1894) 176 The original Turnbulls had..drained the swail-lands, and turned the entire place from a wilderness into a flourishing and fertile home for civilised people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). swalen.⁴ Brit. /sweɪl/, U.S. /sweɪl/ Etymology: Origin uncertain: compare sweal n., and swill n.¹ 10 in Eng. Dial. Dict. southern dialect local. A small broom or brush without a stick for a handle. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom besomc1000 bast broom1357 brush1377 broom14.. sweepc1475 duster1575 bristle brush1601 broom-besom1693 flag-broom1697 stock-brush1700 whisk1745 birch-broom1747 hair-broom1753 spry1796 corn-broomc1810 pope's head1824 whisker1825 sweeping-brusha1828 swish1844 spoke-brush1851 whisk broom1857 Turk's head1859 wisp1875 tube-brush1877 bass-broom?1881 crumb-brush1884 dusting-brush1907 palmetto brush1913 suede brush1915 swale1949 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iii. vii. 123 Some besoms are made without sticks. These are known as swales, an interesting word meaning ‘a small bright fire enough to boil a kettle’. Swales are used to brush the flakes from steel-plate. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 100 Like the besom, it has a head of birch..but is without a handle and is called a swale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). swaleadj. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse svalr. Etymology: < Old Norse svalr (Middle Swedish, Swedish, Norwegian sval ) cool: compare swale n.² northern dialect. Cool, chill. ΚΠ 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 47 Swale, windy, cold, bleak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2020). swalev. Brit. /sweɪl/, U.S. /sweɪl/ Etymology: apparently of dialect origin (see swail in Eng. Dial. Dict.); probably frequentative < sway v. + -le suffix, but parallels are wanting. Compare Shropshire dialect swayl-pole = sway-pole. intransitive. To move or sway up and down or from side to side. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway wawc888 swang1340 waltera1375 swayve1377 swayc1500 nod1578 weave1596 showd1599 swing1607 swag1608 slinger1767 wintle1786 swale1820 daven1977 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 676 Here's a jerked feather that swales in a bonnet. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 781 With his eternal sidling and sliding about,..and swaling with his coat-tails. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous I. iv. 123 The great plumed hat..flapped and swaled over my eyes. Derivatives ˈswaling n. and adj. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > swaying swimblec1386 swagging1566 rolling1578 swaling1824 swaying1837 sway1846 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > swaying nodding1693 rolling1753 swaling1824 swaying1847 swingy1943 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [adjective] > guttering or guttered swaling1824 guttered1860 guttering1862 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 86 He drops a wing..with a swaling and graceful amorousness. 1827 W. M. Praed in Port Folio 22 360/2 As the swaling wherry settles down. 1895 A. Dobson Sundial in Poems xi A soldier gallant.., Swinging a beaver with a swaling plume. ˈswalingly adv. with a swaying motion. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adverb] > swaying swalingly1822 swayingly1854 a-sway1858 swingingly1882 weavingly1945 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 782 Treading the street with his corn-troubled toes,..swalingly goes the kind Cockney King. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : swealswalen. also refers to : swealswalev. < n.¹1325n.²c1440n.³1584n.⁴1949adj.1674v.1820 see also
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