Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Swale \Swale\, n. [Cf. Icel. svalr cool, svala to cool.]
   A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land;
   a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Swale \Swale\, v. i. & t.
   To melt and waste away; to singe. See {Sweal}, v.

Swale \Swale\, n.
   A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]