| Swath | n. [ AS. swaðu a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad, zwad, zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe, v. t. ] 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Swathe | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swathed p. pr. & vb. n. Swathing. ] [ OE. swathen, AS. sweðain. See Swath, n., and cf. Swaddle. ] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. [ 1913 Webster ] Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Swathe | n. A bandage; a band; a swath. [ 1913 Webster ] Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. Young. [ 1913 Webster ] The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ] |
