swale meaning
swale (plural swales) 1  A low tract of moist or marshy land. 2  A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. 3  A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
Meaning: A low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) Classified under: Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made) Hypernyms (swale is a kind of...): trough (a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed))