| Swale 1. (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. 2. (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal. 3. (n.) A gutter in a candle. Thesaurus Entries baygall, bemire, bog down, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cesspool, cloaca, cloaca maxima, drain, dump, everglade, fen, fenland, garbage dump, glade, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, peat bog, quag, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, septic tank, sewer, sink, sink in, slob land, slough, sough, stodge, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, wash |