Look up: swale

1. Swale
   A shallow vegetated channel designed to conduct and retain water, but may also permit infiltration; the vegetation filters particulate matter
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2. swale
   a moist or marshy depression Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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3. Swale
   Swale noun [ Confer Icelandic svalr cool, svala to cool.] A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [ Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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4. Swale
   Swale intransitive verb & t. To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal , v.
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5. Swale
   Swale noun A gutter in a candle. [ Prov. Eng.]
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6. swale
   <ecology> A hollow or depression, especially one in wet, marshy ground. ... (19 Jan 1998) ...
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7. swale
   noun a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
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8. Swale
   • (n.) A gutter in a candle. • (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v. • (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
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9. Swale
   borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England, on the south side of the Thames estuary at its mouth. Swale ...
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10. Swale
    HMS Swale was a British River Class frigate of 1460 tons displacement launched in 1942. HMS Swale was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots. She carried a complement of 140 and was armed with two 4-inch dual-purpose guns; ten 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and one Hedgehog multiple spigot mortar.
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11. Swale
    [horse] 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. ==Background== A son of the 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, Swa...
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12. Swale
    [disambiguation] Swale is a local government district in Kent, England. Swale may also refer to: ...
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13. Swale
    [landform] 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 ...
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14. Swale
    Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. Its council is based in Sittingbourne. The borough 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 distri...
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15. swale
    A moderately contoured depression or dip in terrain.
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16. Swale
    A depression in the terrain.
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17. Swale
    a depression or shallow hollow in the ground, typically moist
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18. swale
    an open channel transporting surface run-off to a drainage system, usually grassed; a swale promotes infiltration, the filtration of sediment by plants and ornamental interest.
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