glade vs swale

glade

noun
  • An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. 

  • An everglade. 

  • An open space in the ice on a river or lake. 

  • A bright surface of ice or snow. 

swale

noun
  • A low tract of moist or marshy land. 

  • A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. 

  • Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil. 

  • A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop. 

  • A gutter in a candle. 

  • A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. 

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