SWATHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swathing mean? 

• SWATHING (noun)
  The noun SWATHING has 1 sense:

1. cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby)

  Familiarity information: SWATHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWATHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("swathing" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Derivation:

swathe (wrap in swaddling clothes)

 Context examples 

The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)