Swaled vs Shaled - What's the difference?
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(swale)
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)
(shale)
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
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(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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To take off the shell or coat of.
As verbs the difference between swaled and shaled
is that swaled is (swale) while shaled is (shale).swaled
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Verb
(head)swale
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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.
Etymology 2
See sweal.Verb
(swal)Anagrams
*shaled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*shale
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(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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