Swale

[sweil]

(noun.) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges).

Editor: Moll--From WordNet

(n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

(v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

(n.) A gutter in a candle.

Editor: Rosanne

v. n. Melt (as a candle), waste, consume, sweal, waste away.

Editor: Winthrop

n. a shady spot: a lower tract of rolling prairie.

Typist: Phil