swale

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Definition of swale in English English dictionary

A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch

A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil

A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop

A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline

A low tract of moist or marshy land

– A slight longitudinal depression in the midst of generally level land

An elongated depression in the landscape that is seasonally wet or marshy, is usually heavily vegetated with marsh grasses and is normally without flowing water

wide low depression

A linear hollow or depression found between dunes or beachridges Generally marshy or swampy, or may contain small lakes

A low area or open channel that carries water in wet weather

An area designed specifically to catch and carry run-off through a lawn or landscaped area

a depression, valley, or undulation on a course Example: "My tee shot was right down the middle of the fairway but it disappeared from sight, so I figured it made it down into the swale "

An elongated depression in the land to channel runoff

A shallow depression in the ground to form a channel for storm-water drainage

a depression, valley, or low portion of undulation on a course Example: My tee shot was right down the middle of the fairway but it disappeared from sight, so I figured it made it down into the swale

a channel or a sloped surface that directs the flow of storm water runoff Swales can be vegetated, lined with vegetation that slows and filters flows when depths are shallower than the vegetative height, or paved

A gentle natural or artificial depression in the ground for drainage of surface water

A drainage problem correction A gently dug ditch, planted with grass, that will guide problem water away from a structure's foundation

The soil contour on a building lot deliberately shaped to channel rain water away from the home

-A linear level-floored open depression excavated by wind or formed by the build-up of two adjacent ridges Typically associated with the depression between two adjacent sand dunes

A gently sloping depression in the land surface designed to transport intermittent runoff from storm events

(a) A low-lying portion of land, below the general elevation of the surroundings (b) A natural ditch or long, shallow depression through which accumulated water from adjacent watersheds drains to lower areas

A depression in the terrain

\'swA(&)l\; noun a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land more

use of ground contours to direct water drainage or flow

A drainage device across a slope that directs water running off a slope towards a catch basin, or to a hollow where stormwater can pool

A gutter in a candle

Shallow open earth channel used to intercept and route surface water flows to a discharge location

See Sweal, v

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

A grass-lined channel designed to control the flow rate and quality of water as it drains from a site

A natural depression or wide shallow ditch used to temporarily convey, store, or filter runoff

A shallow troughlike depression thats created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch

To melt and waste away; to singe

Related Terms

swales

plural of swale

Etymology

[ 'swA(&)l ] (noun.) 1584. Possibly of Middle English, shade, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse svalr