Swale vs X - What's the difference?
swale | x |
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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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.
(melt and waste away, or singe)
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun swale
is a low tract of moist or marshy land or swale can be (uk|dialect) a gutter in a candle.As a verb swale
is (melt and waste away, or singe).As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.swale
English
Etymology 1
, from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalrNoun
(en noun)- Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.