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swathing

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swathe 1  (sw, swô, sw)
tr.v. swathed, swath·ing, swathes
1. To wrap or bind with or as if with bandages.
2. To enfold or constrict.
n.
A wrapping, binding, or bandage.
[Middle English swathen, from Old English swathian.]
swather n.
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Noun1.swathing - cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby)
covering - an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)


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"They will certainly be misled," Letton agreed, his eerie gray eyes blazing out from the voluminous folds of the huge Mueller with which he was swathing his neck to the ears.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
He was slender to emaciation, cavernously checked, roll after roll of skin, no longer encasing flesh or muscle, hanging grotesquely down his neck and swathing the Adam's apple so that only occasionally, with queer swallowing motions, did it peep out of the mummy-wrappings of skin and sink back again from view.
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