\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\, 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.