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Wrapping tightly
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swaddling
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Swaddling is an age-old practice of wrapping infants in blankets or similar cloths so that movement of the limbs is tightly restricted. Swaddling bands were often used to further restrict the infant. Swaddling fell out of favor in the 17th century. Some ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling .] To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement. 2 Clothing of this kind. vb. (present participle of swaddle English)
Usage examples of swaddling.
And they found the woolen bonds swaddling the wooden statue of Saturnus soaked with oil, a puddle of oil upon the floor, and the interior of the statue dry.
The grub had to spit itself a kind of collar, then allow it to dry a little before bunching itself up within its swaddling, making itself shorter and fatter for a few moments while it wove a lid, closing itself in.
Maura crouched down beside it, and a grim-faced Detective Frost peeled back the sheet to reveal the swaddling, caked in wet mud.
Rolling over, he stripped the swaddling tunic away and cast it onto the bedside chair.
If the mark on my swaddling clothes meant anything at all, it might have been the initial letter of a name like Thrasamund or Theudebert, indicating that I could have been a Burgund child, a Frank, a Gepid, a Thuringian, a Suevian, a Vandal or any other of the nationalities of Germanic origin.
He took something from inside his voluminous swaddling of furs and held it out to me.
Do you suppose that omnipresent column of white swaddling will carry a message to him?
The other lady, the one with all the swaddling, was certainly the High Priestess of Isis.
I made all the proper incantations, swaddling her in a glamour of healing.
God yet clings to the breast, and suffers Himself to be wrapped in humble swaddling clothes, suddenly a new star shines forth in the heavens.
The mother bathes herself and the newcomer in cold water, wraps him in his swaddling clothes of calico, straps him on his board cradle, suspends it on a limb, and goes on with the spinning or weaving that had occupied her a few minutes before.
I helped your mother birth you, and wrapped your first swaddling cloths about you with these hands.
I led the way into the hall and let the wet nurse take Catherine from my arms to change her swaddling clothes.
He was tight-swaddled, rolled in bandages, strapped on his swaddling board.
His little hands and arms were strapped to his sides, his swaddling even held his head still.