English Explanatory Dictionary

swallet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sinkhole; a shakehole.
  2. Water breaking in upon the miners at their work.

Word forms

swallet swallets

Etymology

Compare German Schwall (“a sea swell”), from schwellen (“to swell”). See English swell.

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