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Webster 1913 Edition
Swath
Swath
(swa̤th; 277)
, Noun.
[AS. ]
swaðu
a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad
, zwad
, zwade
, a swath of grass, G. schwad
, schwaden
; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe
, Verb.
T.
1.
A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
2.
The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling;
as, to cut a wide
. swath
3.
A band or fillet; a swathe.
Shak.
Swath bank
, a row of new-mown grass.
[Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Swath
SWATH
,Noun.
1.
A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the sythe in mowing or cradling.2.
The whole breadth or sweep of a sythe in mowing or cradling; as a wide swath.3.
A band or fillet. They wrapped me in a hundred yards of swath.