Swale

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

(2): ( v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

(3): ( n.) A gutter in a candle.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A river in the North Riding of Yorkshire, uniting, after a course of 60 miles, with the Ure to form the Ouse.

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