Definition of Swathe. Meaning of Swathe. Synonyms of Swathe

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Definition of Swathe

Swathe
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 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.

Meaning of Swathe from wikipedia

- A swathe (/sweɪð/ British English, rhymes with "bathe"; or swath /swɒθ/ American English, rhymes with "cloth") is the strip of cut crop made by a scythe...
- A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow...
- Mpowele Swathe is a South African politician, a former Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the former Shadow Minister of Rural Development...
- distinct line but this was thwarted by Gruffudd ap Llewellyn, who reclaimed swathes of land beyond the ****. The Act of Union of 1536 formed a linear border...
- insurgents belonging to the Islamic State group seized control of large swathes of land including several major cities, like Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul...
- seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swathe mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry. It is used to make digital 3-D representations...
- bureaucratic sounding Wide Streets Commissioners [..] cut broad, ersatz boulevard swathes through the dense urban grain to create Parliament Street, Dame Street...
- areas not under official martial law, but the Cheka continued as before in swathes of the country. By 1920, the Cheka had become the most powerful institution...
- soundwaves, producing a swathe of depth soundings from a single ping. Multibeam sonar sounding systems, also known as swathe (British English) or swath...
- stroke after stepping forward into the swathe. Mowing rye in 1945. 2. Swinging left into the cut and deepening the swathe 3. Finish of the stroke and depositing...