SWADDLE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

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