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Definition of Swallets
1. swallet [n] - See also: swallet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallets
Literary usage of Swallets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"These swallets are found in great numbers in the Mendip Hills, and serve as
natural drains to the rainfall of the Hills, which from time immemorial has run ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1865)
"... drains into the two swallets respectively, 1863. and did by so doing, ...
of his discharging the muddy streams from the pits into the swallets on the ..."
3. The Mining and Smelting Magazine (1863)
"In the " case " stated to the Court, these " swallets " are described as rents
in the limestone rock, open to the surface at the summits of the hills, ..."
4. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"Again, at Banwell we have another instance of the outlet or final appearance of
one of these swallets, or underground rivers, draining the Mountain ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nuisances in Their Various Forms by Horace Gay Wood (1881)
"From these puddles the water polluted by the process of the manufacture was
discharged through two swallets or rents in the limestone rock, ..."
6. A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy ...by John Mews, Cecil Maurice Chapman, Harry Hadden Wickes Sparham, Arthur Horatio Todd by John Mews, Cecil Maurice Chapman, Harry Hadden Wickes Sparham, Arthur Horatio Todd (1884)
"From these buddies polluted water was discharged into drains communicating with
two swallets or natural rents existing from time immemorial in the limestone ..."
7. A Digest of All the Cases in All the Reports Decided by All the Courts by Edward William Cox (1870)
"In the course of its passage through the works, and from being used therein, the
water became foul, and while in that state passed through tho swallets, ..."
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