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swale

/sweyl/US // sweɪl //UK // (sweɪl) //

沼泽地,沼泽,沼泽地带,沼气

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly Northeastern U.S.

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

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Examples

  • Just a caved-in swale of dirt and two rods poking out of the earth.

  • The murmur of the nearby Swale and the notes of the English thrushes filled the air with soft melody.

  • As a trailer McFann had few equals, and he knew every swale in the prairie and every nook in the mountains on the reservation.

  • A turn with the steering-wheel headed the Flier for the opening, and she glided in between the sloping walls of the narrow swale.

  • By and by we stopped at a place where a feller called Spangler got out and lost himself in a swale.

  • The lilt of a lark hanging above the swale beside them was not sweeter than the sweetness of his voice.