Definitions for swathes

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swathes swathe

Spelling: [swoth, sweyth]

IPA: /swɒð, sweɪð/

Swathes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in swathes (aehsstw).

Definitions for swathes

noun

1. a band of linen or the like in which something is wrapped; wrapping; bandage.
2. swath.
3. a band of linen or the like in which something is wrapped; wrapping; bandage.
4. swath.

verb (used with object)

1. to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
2. to bandage.
3. to enfold or envelop, as wrappings do.
4. to wrap (cloth, rope, etc.) around something.
5. to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
6. to bandage.
7. to enfold or envelop, as wrappings do.
8. to wrap (cloth, rope, etc.) around something.

Origin of swathes

before 1050; (noun) Middle English; Old English *swæth or *swath (in swathum dative plural); cf. swaddle; (v.) Middle English swathen, late Old English swathian, d

Examples for swathes

They sometimes so swathe the peaks with light as to abolish their definition.

He would not be at the pains even to swathe his own legs or strap his own sandals.

The Chinese swathe the feet of their infant females; and they are not only small, but weak.

They swathe their heads in old lace which declines to drape gracefully about their cheeks.

Pitou was literally buried beneath the swathe, and bathed by the warm and nauseating stream.

swathe the body in the thickest of non-conductors of heat, and what happens?

Where the swathe of the scythe is wide men's souls expand in heart qualities.

And all unseen by you a host of heaven-sent fatuities swathes him about, even, maybe, as they swathe you about.

They swathe their bodies from neck to ankle with gaily coloured calico.

"He said it made the swathe better there than any where else," they reply.

Those who have been hit are already lying mown down in swathes behind us and are writhing on their wounds.

Lavishing her silky spray, she swathes them and then sucks the body at her ease.

A Maxim they had with them also swept horses and men away in swathes.

He watched the departing army—paddlers sitting on swathes of filched spears.

It was pleasant to be involved in the bustle about the precious thing they were unwrapping from swathes of tissue paper.

It swathes those impossible masses in draperies soothingly uncertain of outline.

On we go across the austere plain, between fields of madder, the red roots of the 'garance' lying in swathes along the furrows.

Feathers are smoothed down, as a field of corn by wind with rain; only the swathes laid in beautiful order.

Death, issuing from that great power of artillery, laid the soldiers in swathes.

When they met again, he had his head bound up with swathes of linen.