Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swathe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swathe
n : an enveloping bandage [syn: {wrapping}]
v : wrap in swaddling clothes; of infants [syn: {swaddle}]
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