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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWATHE, v.t. To bind with a band, bandage or rollers; as, to swathe a child.
1. To bind or wrap.
Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when first born.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an enveloping bandage [syn: swathe, wrapping] v
1: wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant" [syn: swaddle, swathe]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun or swath Etymology: Middle English, from Old English *swęth; akin to Old English swathian to swathe Date: before 12th century 1. a band used in swathing 2. an enveloping medium II. transitive verb (swathed; swathing) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English swathian Date: 12th century 1. to bind, wrap, or swaddle with or as if with a bandage 2. envelop <a mountain swathed by clouds>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. bind or enclose in bandages or garments etc. --n. a bandage or wrapping. Etymology: OE swathian

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swathe Swathe (sw[=a][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swathed (sw[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Swathing.] [OE. swathen, AS. swe[eth]ain. See Swath, n., and cf. Swaddle.] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. --Abp. Abbot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swathe Swathe, n. A bandage; a band; a swath. Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. --Addison. Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. --Young. The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. --G. Eliot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(swathes, swathing, swathed) Note: The noun is also spelled 'swath'. 1. A swathe of land is a long strip of land. Year by year great swathes of this small nation's countryside disappear. N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A swathe of cloth is a long strip of cloth, especially one that is wrapped around someone or something. ...swathes of white silk. N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. To swathe someone or something in cloth means to wrap them in it completely. She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics... His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet. VERB: V n in n, V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Swaddle. II. n. Bandage.

Moby Thesaurus

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