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Definition of Swales
1. swale [n] - See also: swale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swales
Literary usage of Swales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"BY BH swales AND PA TAVERNER. NATURE means change. Nature plus man means
transformation. The time is passing, and with it many of our once common species ..."
2. Tile Drainage; Or, Why, Where, When, and how to Drain Land with Tiles: A by W. I. Chamberlain (1891)
"The sides along the swales, or dry brooks, are wet, crooked, ... Ten-acre field
with crooked " swales," or ttry brooks, interfe ing with tillage. ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The breadth of land which these swales drain is shown to be about 80 rods, ...
Plaintiff has put tiling along the swales, there being two drains at proper ..."
4. Potential Groundwater Contamination from Intentional and Nonintentional by Robert Pitt, Shirley Clark, Keith Parmer (1994)
"Grass swales- Grass swale drainages are a type of infiltration device and can
... Grass swales allow the recharge of significant amounts of surface flows. ..."
5. Our Farming: Or, How We Have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure by Theodore Brainard Terry (1893)
"... or swales, or little swamps, scattered around on otherwise well drained farms.
It may be poor business economy not to regularly drain a clay farm, ..."
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