See swale on Wiktionary
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"sense": "low tract of moist or marshy land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "топь"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "průleh"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Drängraben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Flutgraben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rigole"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "canaleta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "shallow troughlike depression created to carry water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valeta"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drenaž",
"sense": "shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дренаж"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sickergraben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Versickerungsmulde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Versickerungsmulde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Versickerungsgraben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "shallow depression sloping downward from a plains upland or level ridgetop",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Senke"
}
],
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"swale"
],
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}
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"Rhymes:English/eɪl/1 syllable",
"en:Landforms",
"en:Wetlands"
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"A gutter in a candle."
],
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"candle"
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],
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"(UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle."
],
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}
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},
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"rhymes": "-eɪl"
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],
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}
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"form": "swales",
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"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swaling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
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"form": "swaled",
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"past"
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"extra": "melt and waste away, or singe",
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"Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”)"
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"sweal",
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{
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"word": "whale"
}
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"Alternative form of whale"
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