swaling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
swaling
- present participle and gerund of swale
Noun[edit]
swaling (plural swalings)
- Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana, volume 41, page 68:
- Metal cups, or basins, were very generally employed in churches for catching the swalings of wax candles, wax being a commodity too valuable to be wasted.