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单词 swathing
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swathingn.

/ˈsweɪðɪŋ/
Etymology: < swathe v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of swathe v.; wrapping or binding up; swaddling.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > swathing
swathing1375
rollingc1450
swaddlingc1522
enswathement1877
1375 [implied in: Creation 763 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 133 A ȝong child..In þe swaþyng cloutis wounde. (at swathing-clouts n.)].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 482/1 Swathynge of chyldyr.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 185 The Pergamites..had a great affectation..in streight swathing of their children.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 272 Swathing egregiously stops Bleeding.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 198 They use no swathing to their Babes.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 489 The smallness of their feet is reckoned a principal part of their beauty, and no swathing is omitted..to give them that accomplishment.
2. concrete. That with which something is swathed; a wrapping; a bandage; a swaddling-band; also figurative. (Most commonly in plural.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > a wrapping > a swathing
sindon1577
swathe1598
swathing-band1615
swathing1652
1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra ii. 132 Putting his hands where he found his hurts paine him, he met with the plaisters and swathings which had bin applyed to them.
a1711 T. Ken Sion i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 333 To..heal each Wound, Which there is with soft Swathing bound.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 630 Flannel swathing around the body.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. iii. 246 Were the earth unfurnished with this atmospheric swathing.
1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 58 The women in a blue calico swathing.
1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 117 The linen swathings of mummified bodies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

swathingadj.

Etymology: < swathe v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswathing.
That swathes; enveloping, enwrapping.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > swathing
sheeting1592
swathing1844
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1943 in Poems I The slow procession of the swathing seas.
1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems v. xv. 15 No bud had burst its swathing hood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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