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Definition of Swallet
1. n. Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.
Definition of Swallet
1. Noun. (British) A sinkhole; A shakehole ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swallet
1. a swallow hole [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallet
Literary usage of Swallet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"Usually the whole flow is absorbed, but after heavy rain the " swallet" cannot
... The actual swallet is a marshy area, overgrown with nettles and enclosed ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"A swallet is a rent in the limestone rock of the Mendip Hills, having an open
funnel-shaped mouth in the surface of the rock on * l^e ..."
3. A Treatise on Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towns: With a by Samuel Hughes (1882)
"The same phenomena of swallet holes and subterranean rivers present themselves
in the district of Gower and in the Mendip hills. ..."
4. The Geology of England and Wales: A Concise Account of the Lithological by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1876)
"Examples of these swallet holes occur at Downhead Mill. near the south-eastern
extremity of the Mendip ..."
5. The Geology of England and Wales: A Concise Account of the Lithological by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1876)
"Examples of these swallet holes occur at Downhead Mill, near the south-eastern
extremity of the Mendip chain ; at the village of Priddy ; and at ..."
6. Memorials of Old Somerset by Frederick John Snell (1906)
"Thus the origin of Wookey Hole is traced to a stream at Priddy, which sinks into
a swallet hole, its subterranean course being determined by the southerly ..."
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