Crossword clues for swathe
swathe
- Whack? What about bandage?
- Was messing with the bandage
- Strike by hospital employees at first that covers a wide area
- Sew unlined articles together to form bandage
- Broad strip or area of something
- Take stock of regulation covering terms of onerous contract
- Bundle up
- Wrap tightly, as in bandages
- Wrap snugly, as in a blanket
- Wrap, as in bandages
- Wrap in a blanket
- Wrap in a bandage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to bind with bandages, swaddle, wrap," Old English swaþian "to swathe, wrap up," from swaðu "track, trace" (see swath). The noun meaning "infant's swaddling bands" was found in Old English as swaþum (dative plural). Related: Swathed; swathing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a bandage; a band vb. to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers Etymology 2
n. (context: chiefly British) (alternative spelling of swath English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A swathe, or swath : rhymes with "bathe") or swath (: rhymes with "Goth") is the width of a scythe stroke or a mowing-machine blade, the path of this width made in mowing or the mown grass or grain lying on such a path. The mower with a scythe moves along the mowing-edge with the uncut grass to the right and the cut grass laid in a neat row to the left, on the previously mown land. The swathe width depends on the blade length, the nature of the crop and the mower but is usually about 1.5 metres wide. Mowing may be done by a team of mowers, usually starting at the edges of a meadow then proceeding clockwise leaving a series of staggered swathes and finishing in the middle.
The mower swings the scythe steadily in long, left handed arcs ending in front of the mower and depositing the cut grass neatly to the left. The mower takes a small step forward and repeats the motion, proceeding with a steady rhythm, stopping at frequent intervals to hone the blade. The correct technique has a slicing action on the grass, cutting a narrow strip, leaving a uniform stubble on the ground and forming a regular windrow on the left.
The scythe has generally been replaced by machinery such as the swather pictured, or combine harvester which still leaves a swathe to its left but is very much wider than the scythe. Early in the introduction of machinery it was still necessary for mowers with scythes to open up a swathe wide enough to take the machine before it could start
Usage examples of "swathe".
They rode with a particularly wary air about them, and dark burnouses wrapped their heads and swathed their faces.
She barely acknowledged the greetings and festive wishes from the staff as they cut a swathe through the crowd, the minglers parting like the Red Sea as they moved across the room.
Lower down, the trees gave way to brambles and great swathes of ramsons, their small white spikes just beginning to bloom.
But he cut something out, and he sewed up the wound just as the doctor told him, very neat and natty with six stitches, varying considerably in size but tied off with good tight knots, and we then smothered the area with sulphonamide powder and swathed the patient in bandages.
And a far cry from either the tinselly fortune-teller with her rhinestone glasses, or the antique bird woman at the United Nations, swathed in black.
At bottom right an official, swathed in a tricolor sash, inspects the disposal of bodies while a figure beside him makes notes in a register.
Before Vinter could respond, an elegantly coiffed woman suited in Chanel and swathed in sable, came out of his booth and politely interrupted.
Let the wind roar above and the ice bang the shore rocks, the Aleut swathed in furs sleeps sound close to earth.
Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies Behold the Spirit of the musky South, A creole with still-burning, languid eyes, Voluptuous limbs and incense-breathing mouth: Swathed in spun gauze is she, From fibres of her own anana tree.
A swathe of portal destruc- tion had swung across the million-star volume all around Leseum back in the time of the Arteria Collapse, leaving only the bunched Leseum systems themselves connected inside a vast volume of backwardness.
In the background a tall figure swathed totally in a hooded burnoose, his hands concealed in its sleeves, nodded.
The English had killed thousands in Caen, then burned farms, mills and villages in a great swathe east and north.
The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.
They were swathed in woolens and furs, mittens and earmuffs, knitted caps.
Just as things come ripe, the creatures always set their webs, sewn with perfect zigzag seams, across the swathes of grass, jewelweed, goldenrod, milkweed, and burdock behind the sagging barn.