Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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\, 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.

Source : WordNet®

swathe
     n : an enveloping bandage [syn: {wrapping}]
     v : wrap in swaddling clothes; "swadddle the infant" [syn: {swaddle}]