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Swale [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A local word in New England, signifying an interval or vale; a tract of low land.

2. In England, a shade.

Swale [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To waste. [ See Sweal .]

Swale [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dress a hog for bacon, by singeing or burning off his hair. [Local.]

Swale [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Swale [Verb intransitive and transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.