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Examples
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Water floods and I mean floods from reed bed to reed bed before flooding through a series of streams and a swail and, finally, into a large balancing reservoir, on the hill above my house - which is always full.
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He cut a swail into the lawn for the runoff water to collect into, then diverted the water down a hill.
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SPAWN encourages users to create a swail that forms a "rain garden."
unknown title 2009
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And command-line switches let you clean your disk with one swail foop without further intervention from you.
PC World 2009
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"flail" - and since coming out last spring via swail. com, it has started climbing the Google search ladder.
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“Only over yan way to the first piece of wet ground, and the trail leads down to tha’ spring tha’, and tha’ is quite a right smart bit of muddy swail beyont.”
The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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