SWALE
- shallow depression on a golf fairway or green
- a tract of low, marshy ground [n SWALES]
- low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land
- a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land
- a tract of low, marshy ground, also SWAIL [n -S] / to sway (to move slowly back and forth) [v SWALED, SWALING, SWALES]