Category:Swaddle

Swad"dle, n. Etym: [as. swe, swe, fr. swe to bind. See swathe.]

Defn: anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling Band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.

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.