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

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  1. n. A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
  2. v. i. & t. To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
  3. n. A gutter in a candle.
  4. n. a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
  5. A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v. A gutter in a candle. [Prov. Eng.]
  6. A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; amoor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
  7. n:100 n. a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)