swale

A low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy.

A long, narrow, usually shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

A shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts.

Bleak; windy.

A shade, or shady spot.

A low place; a slight depression in a region in general nearly level, especially one of the lower tracts of what is called in the western United States “rolling prairie.”

To melt and run down, as from heat; show the effects of great heat, whether by melting or by burning slowly.

To burn, whether by singeing or by causing to melt or to run down; especially, to dress, as an animal killed for food, by singeing off the hair.

A gutter in a candle.

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