\Swad"dle\, n. [AS. swe?il, swe?el, fr. swe?ain to bind.
See {Swathe}.]
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a
swaddling band.
      They put me in bed in all my swaddles.   --Addison.

\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.