Swale

·noun A gutter in a candle.

II. Swale ·vi & ·vt To melt and waste away; to singe. ·see Sweal, v.

III. Swale ·noun A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

swale
A local word in New England, signifying an interval or vale; a tract of low land.--Webster. This wor...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
swale
1) windy, cold, bleak. N. 2) to singe or burn ; as, to sweal a hog ; a sweal'd cat, a cat whose hai...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose