Usually means: Burn slowly with a flame.
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  1. sweal: Merriam-Webster
  2. sweal: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sweal: Wordnik
  4. sweal: Wiktionary
  5. Sweal: Dictionary.com
  6. Sweal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. sweal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Sweal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. sweal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. sweal: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Sweal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (sweal)

verb:  (intransitive) To burn slowly.
verb:  (intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
verb:  (transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
verb:  (transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
verb:  (transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.

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