Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swaddled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Swaddling}.]
   1. 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
            of linen.                             --Addison.

   2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.

Swaddling \Swad"dling\,
   a. & n. from {Swaddle}, v.

   {Swaddling band}, {Swaddling cloth}, or {Swaddling clout}, a
      band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a
      newborn infant.

            Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
            lying in a manger.                    --Luke ii. 12.