Swaled vs Waled - What's the difference?
swaled | waled |
(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)
(wale)
A ridge or low barrier.
A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course)
The texture of a piece of fabric.
(nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.
* 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
* 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
To give a surface a texture of wales.
to choose, select.
As verbs the difference between swaled and waled
is that swaled is (swale) while waled is (wale).swaled
English
Verb
(head)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.
Etymology 2
See sweal.Verb
(swal)Anagrams
*waled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----wale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wale, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
- (Holland)
Verb
(wal)- Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
- When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.
