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Webster 1913 Edition

Swathe

Swathe

(swāth)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Swathed
(swāthd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Swathing
.]
[OE.
swathen
, AS.
sweðain
. See
Swath
,
Noun.
, 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

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Swathe

SWATHE

,
Verb.
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.

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