About The Word Swathe
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Swathe
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What's The Definition Of Swathe?
[n] an enveloping bandage
[v] wrap in swaddling clothes; of infants Synonyms | Synonyms for Swathe: swaddle | wrapping Related Terms | Find terms related to Swathe: Swathe In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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