= SWALLOW sb.2 1 b.
1811. in Marshall’s Rev. Rep. Bourd Agric., Midl., 83. List of Water-swallows or Holes in the Rocks into which Streams of Water fall and disappear in and near Derbyshire.
1840. Hodgson, Northumb., II. III. 327/2, note. A stratum of limestone full of water-swallow-holes.
1889. Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc., XI. 34. This valley is entirely drained by ‘water-swallows’—natural drains along the bottom, through which the surface-rills sink out of sight.
Hence † Water-swallowed a., abounding in water-swallows.
1610. Folkingham, Feudigr., I. iii. 4. It would be also peruestigated, whether it [sc. the earth] be light, loose,… leane, barren, fertile, water-swallowed, soale-bound.
