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swathe

[swoth, sweyth] / swɒð, sweɪð /
VERB
drape
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STRONGEST


VERB
enfold
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There stands a lonely pine-tree In the north, on a barren height; He sleeps while the ice and snow flakes Swathe him in folds of white.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.

From The Iliad by Homer

Swathe the body in the thickest of non-conductors of heat, and what happens?

From The Silent Bullet by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)




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