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Swale

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Noun

1. swale

a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)

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Swale

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noun
mainly US
a. 
a moist depression in a tract of land, usually with rank vegetation
b. 
(as modifier)
swell and swale topography

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Swale

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noun
1. 
a hollow, depression, or low area of land
2.  US
such a place in a wet, marshy area

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Swale

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n.
1. A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy.
2. A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
3. A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts.

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