Crossword clues for swath
swath
- Mower's trail
- Cut a wide ____
- Wide path
- Wheat field feature
- What a scythe may cut
- Strip of mowed grass
- Strip of cut grass
- Scythe strip
- Row of cut grass
- Riding mower's trail
- Reaper's wake
- Path left behind by a mower
- Path behind the Lawn-Boy
- Mower's width
- Mower's mark
- Mowed row
- Mowed ground
- Long, narrow strip
- Line of cut grass
- Lawn mower's trail
- Cutting trail
- Mowed strip, e.g
- Lawn mower's path
- Strip on the lawn
- Mowed path
- Space cut by a scythe
- Path of mowed grass
- The space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
- A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- Mown path
- Sweep of a scythe
- Path cut by a scythe
- Broad strip
- Mower's path
- Narrow strip
- Mown strip
- A scythe may cut one
- Swipe of a scythe
- Scythe stroke
- Path behind a mower
- Mown tract
- Mower's wake
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swath \Swath\ (sw[add]th; 277), n. [AS. swa[eth]u a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad, zwad, zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe, v. t.]
A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
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.
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A band or fillet; a swathe.
--Shak.Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English swæð, swaðu "track, footstep, trace, scar, vestige," from Proto-Germanic *swathan, *swatho (cognates: Old Frisian swethe "boundary made by a scythe," Middle Dutch swade, Dutch zwade, German Schwad "a row of cut grass"); of uncertain origin. Meaning "a mown crop lying on the ground" is from early 14c.; that of "space covered by the single cut of a scythe" emerged late 15c., and that of "a strip, lengthwise extent" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. 2 (context often figuratively English) A broad sweep or expanse.
WordNet
n. the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) [syn: belt]
Wikipedia
Swath or Swathe may refer to:
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Swathe, the strip of mown crop left behind the mower
- A windrow (synonym), a line or row of cut cropusually of hay, or strawleft on a field after mowing/reaping/harvesting, or formed afterwards
- Swath width, the strip of the Earth’s surface from which geographic data are collected by a moving vehicle
- Sequential Windowed Acquisition of All Theoretical Fragment Ion Mass Spectra (SWATH-MS), an acquisition type in mass spectrometry
- Small-waterplane-area twin hull (SWATH), a type of ship design
- Snow White and the Huntsman, a dark fantasy action-adventure film based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
Usage examples of "swath".
The glaring acetylene headlight cut a misty swath through the smudgy gloom.
In a quick motion, he pulled off the coat, the sports jacket, tossed them aside, grabbed a bladeless safety razor from the cabinet shelf and scraped a swath through the layer of white lather, then dashed for the door and flung it wide.
Lousiana had acquired, by right of eminent domain, a 300-foot-wide swath through the de Ia Chevaux property for the construction of a superhighway.
The trader track would fade before long, he recalled, the dyke on his right dwindling, the road itself becoming a sandy swath humped with ant nests, bone-white driftwood and yellow knots of grass, with floods wiping the ruts away every spring.
You will be invisible, but everywhere you go in the Metaverse you will leave a swath of destruction and confusion a mile wide.
Her illusions needed some minor improvement, but by the time he went against the rabble led by Mors, Riverwind ought to cut quite a swath.
He made his headquarters in the corridor hallway where the twos had set up the one-by-eight on the two stepladders they used for scaffolding, and where Prew was working, first standing on the board, then sitting on it, then kneeling on the floor, washing down swath after swath of the pebbly plaster wall from floor to ceiling.
He was watching the immolation of pockets of reserved fuel, each one blasting past the reformatted hull, burning off swaths of philosopher cells, torching all the information they contained.
Troy pushed through a row of hard, fibrous stems, and suddenly they stared in amazement at a long, low swath of ground-hugging plants, dark green trifoliate leaves with tiny serrated edges, and bright berries.
In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat.
Trained to war, the Bactrian horses cut a swath of death among the enemy, killing and injuring more than Kayan could claim with his sword.
On the balcony of my hotel room I examine those I can closely in the sun, wondering which of the swollen swaths of flesh contain the squirming larvae of the botfly the nun had so kindly warned me about on the flight into Belize.
And legend says that when he reached the verdant valley of the River Coln, he paused on a swath of bottomland which rolled out to meet the wolds like a lush green carpet.
He was still a rake, and what a swath he would cut through the ton with his elegant new dignity and his romantic limp to remind the feather-headed chits of his heroism.
Clarice had covered with a lace cloth and with balms and creams, hairpins and swaths of cloth.