Definitions for swales

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Spelling: [sweyl]
IPA: /sweɪl/

Swales is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in swales (aelssw).

Definitions for swales

noun

  1. a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
  2. a valleylike intersection of two slopes in a piece of land.

Origin of swales

1400-50; late Middle English; originally a cool, shady spot, perhaps Old Norse svalr cool, or svalir a covered porch

Examples for swales

To Dallas, laying the blue-stem of the swale, the hours of the morning went slowly.

Helen urged her horse after them and they broke across a corner of the swale to the woods.

"Oh, it's just that swale to the right of the driveway," said Rufus.

Myton is on the swale, near its junction with the Ure, and so a little east of Boroughbridge.

The campoodies are near the watercourses, but never in the swale of the stream.

A group of men were gathered in the swale between the shack and Shanty Town.

There are areas of swale, or wet bottom-lands, which may be drained to advantage.

"He may be in the swale," muttered the watcher as he stood with his eye to the loop-hole.

No breath of air stirred the foliage or the bending rushes in the swale.

Usually straw, meadow hay, or swale hay is used for bedding.

Word Value for swales
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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