swale
/sweɪl
/noun chiefly North American & dialect
A low or hollow place, especially a marshy depression between ridges.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....
- Landscaping involved land leveling by lowering ridges and filling swales and was undertaken in connection with the construction of plazas and other special-use areas within most Mississippian centers.
- The orchids occurred in wet marshy swales and in open margins of wet shrubby thickets and ponds.
Origin
Early 16th century: of unknown origin; probably taken to America from eastern England, where it is still in use.
Rhymes
- abstentionism
- abstentionist
- abstentious
- absterge
- abstergent
- absterse
- abstersion
- abstersive
- abstersiveness
- abstersory
- abstertion
- abstinence
- abstinence program
- abstinence programme
- abstinence symptom
- abstinence syndrome
- abstinency
- abstinent
- abstinential
- abstinently
- abstract
- abstractable
- abstract algebra
- abstract art
- abstract-concrete