swathswathen.¹

Brit.

/swɒθ/,

/swɔːθ/, U.S.

/swɑθ/

/sweɪð/

Forms: Old English swæþ, swaþu, Middle English swaðe, (Middle English swethe ?, 1500s swade, suath, 1600s swaithe, sweath, 1600s–1800s swaith), Middle English– swath, swathe.

Etymology: Old English swæþ, strong n., swaþu, strong feminine, trace, track, corresponding to Middle Low German swat, swâde furrow, swath, measure of land (Low German swad, swatt), Middle Dutch swat (-d-), *swâde (Dutch zwad, zwade) swath, Middle German swade, weak masculine, swath, piece of flesh torn off longways (German schwad, strong masculine and neuter, schwade, weak masculine and feminine, swath, space covered by the scythe in a swing); Frisian, (Middle) Low German, early modern Dutch swade have also the meaning ‘scythe’. The ulterior relations and original meaning of the underlying Germanic root swaþ- are uncertain. Evidence is not available for determining the date of the appearance of the form with a long vowel typically represented by the spelling swathe , since in the early periods swathe , swathes , are phonetically ambiguous; in modern local use, swathe is characteristic of the northern counties; its use in literature has probably been furthered by association with swathe n.

†1. Track, trace. literal and figurative. Obsolete.Chiefly or ? only Old English; quot. a1325 is dubious.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something

swathc888

forec1250

vorea1387

tracec1420

track1470

rut1552

fore-step1562

cart-rut1601

trail1610

strake1617

cart-ritta1657

cart-ruck1820

wheel-spura1825

wake1851

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §1 He..ne forlæt nan swæð ær he gefehð þæt þæt he æfterspyreð.

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 5 May 74 On Oliuetes dune syndon nu gyt þa swæðe dryhtnes fotlasta..ne mihte seo his swaðu..beon þæm oðrum florum geonlicod.

c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1899) iv. iii. 350 Þa swaðe awuniað regollices lifes [L. regularis vitæ vestigia permanent].

OE Beowulf 2098 Hwæþre him sio swiðre swaðe weardade hand on Hiorte.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3786 Gret fier..for-brende hem..Oc aaron, al hol and fer, Cam him no fieres swaðe ner.

a. The space covered by a sweep of the mower's scythe; the width of grass or corn so cut.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > space covered by

swathc1475

c1475 Cath. Angl. (Add. MS.) 373/2 Swathe, orbita falcatoris est.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii Take hede thy mower..mowe his swath clene thorowe to that, that was last mowen before.

1664 H. Spelman Glossarium at Dolæ Illud terræ spacium quod uno falcis ictu messor radit. Angl. swath.

1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 27 in Farm-rep. The mowing should be so performed, that neither the strokes of the scythe nor the junction of the swaths can be discerned.

1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 41 The great mower Time, who cuts so broad a swathe.

1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ix. 415 While I cut right and left, And mow thee in advance a good wide swath.

b. As a measure of grass land: A longitudinal division of a field, ? originally reckoned by the breadth of one sweep of the scythe. local.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land

swathc1325

runrig1437

raina1450

selionc1450

rundale1474

quillet1533

rig length1616

plank1631

narrow land1640

rap1710

run-ridge1741

rean1781

slinget1790

slip1837

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > breadth of sweep of scythe as unit

swathc1325

c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 573 Duæ Swathes dicti prati jacent ut sequitur.

c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 573 Dimidia roda et dimidia Swathe apud Shortedolemede.

1526 Test. of Thomas Jewetson in C. W. Foster Lincoln Wills (1914) I. 166 I bequeth vj swades off medow grounde lyeng att byllesby croffte end for to kepe an obbyt for my soule.

1625 Deed in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) (at cited word) All those foure swathes of land lying and being in Crigleston.

1664 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. All those sixteene swaithes of meadowe-ground lyeing etc. within the lord~shippe of Cropton.

1787 Survey in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) (at cited word) All the grass lands in the Ings are laid out in Gads or swaths.

1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 158 Two swathes [of land] in the Ings Meadow.

†c. The extent of sweep of a scythe. Obsolete. rare.Misunderstood by R. Holme Armoury iii. 332/2 as ‘the long crooked Staff or Pole’ of a scythe.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > extent of scythe's sweep

swath1577

mow1825

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 41^v In other places they vse a greater Sythe with a long Suath.

d. A stroke of the scythe in reaping. rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > stroke of scythe

swatha1643

swaff1688

mow1825

a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. N5^v A strangled snake, Kill'd before known, perhaps 'mongst Heathen hath Been thought the deed and valour of the Swath.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 30 The hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath.

a. A row or line of grass, corn, or other crop, as it falls or lies when mown or reaped; also collectively, a crop mown and lying on the ground; phr. in (the) swath (cf. Low German in't swatt), lying in this condition.Sometimes, ‘the quantity falling at one sweep of the scythe’ (Robinson Whitby Gloss. 1876 at Sweeathe).

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut

swathc1325

swarth1552

rew1553

swatch1577

lodging1733

swipe1869

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 154 Une andeyne de prée, a swathe [v.r. a swethe of mede].

c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 112 M[an] mawith of mede a swath.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 2508 A mede..Mawene and vne-made,..In swathes sweppene downe, fulle of swete floures.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20^v Grasse lately in swathes is hay for an Oxe.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 25 The strawy Greekes ripe for his edge Fall downe before him like a mowers swath .

1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 499 Long Swathes of their degraded Grasse, Well show the way their sweeping Scithes did pass.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. vi. 499 If there be plentie of grasse, and that you see it lye thicke in the swathes.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 42 Swaths of new-shorne grasse.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 52 We turned the swath to the wind.

1766 Compl. Farmer Grips, the swaiths, or small heaps of corn, lying in the field, as it is cut down with the scythe.

1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Hay [is] in swath, when just mowed.

1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 74 in Farm-rep. That it may come early to the swaith, it is never permitted to eat it down in autumn.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 73 As clover..is rarely tedded, it should be sufficient to leave every tenth swathe for the tithe.

1840 Florist's Jrnl. July 70 Though the swathe from some grounds is not heavy, the quality will everywhere be very superior.

1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. xi. 243 The grass had been cut, and left in swaths.

1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 1 Men..were mowing the frozen grass..and as the swathes fell, they gave a crisp..sound.

b. transferred. Applied to growing grass or corn ready for mowing or reaping.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > standing crop

swath1577

standing crop1683

stand1833

swarth1880

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 45^v To the ende the after swath may be mowed in Autume.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 229 Whose burthened Pasture beares The most aboundant swathe.

1820 J. Keats To Autumn ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 138 While thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

1846 J. Parkinson in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 366 In June there was a heavy swath, which was mown for seed.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 592 Within the flowery swathe he heard The sweeping of the scythe.

c. to cut a swath (U.S. slang): to make a pompous display, swagger, ‘cut a dash’. Now frequently to cut a wide swath.

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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]

brandishc1340

ruffle1484

braga1556

swash1556

flourish1563

flaunt1566

prank1567

prink1573

to shake, wag the feather1581

peacockize1598

air1605

display1608

to launch it out1608

flasha1616

to cut it out1619

flare1633

vapour1652

peacock1654

spark1676

to gallantrize it1693

bosh1709

glare1712

to cut a bosh1726

to show away1728

to figure away, off1749

parade1749

to cut a dashc1771

dash1786

to cut up1787

to cut a flash1795

to make, or cut, a splash1804

swank1809

to come out strong1825

to cut a spludge1831

to cut it (too) fat1836

pavonize1838

splurge1844

to do the grand1847

to cut a swath1848

to cut a splurge1860

to fan out1860

spread1860

skyre1871

fluster1876

to strut one's stuff1926

showboat1937

floss1938

style1968

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms at Cut

1855 Knickerbocker Dec. 617 [He] might better have cut just as big a swath somewhere else.

1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders 348 You folks been cuttin' a pretty wide swath here in New York.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 119 [Maine] Someone conceited..‘feels his oats’, ‘cuts a wide swath’, ‘is one of the big bugs’.

1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 241 He was determined to cut a wide swath with the girls—no easy trick in Philadelphia.

4. transferred and figurative.

a. A broad track, belt, strip, or longitudinal extent of something.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun] > that which has length > a long or continuous extent of something

range1601

swath?1606

length1609

swartha1616

stretch1661

ringe1706

span1894

?1606 M. Drayton Ode vii, in Poemes sig. B8^v Yet many riuers cleere Here glide in siluer swathes, And what of all most deare Buckstons delicious bathes.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. ii. 367 The Notch fortify'd with a Swath of split Quill.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §13. 256 The..Ecliptic, or rather Zodiac, (for like a Belt or Swath, it is 20 deg. broad).

1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 41 I began to look o'er my shouther, but there was naething there but the swathes o' mist.

1849 G. Cupples Green Hand xiii Where you saw the water winding about the horizon in long swathes, as it were.

1859 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (new ed.) vi. §339. 105 A breadth or swath of winds in the north-east trades.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Swathe, the entire length of a sea-wave.

1909 R. F. Anderson Logie 100 Years Ago 9 An auld wifie laying out a swath of unbleached cotton.

b. Something compared to grass or corn falling before the scythe or sickle; esp. used of troops ‘mown down’ in battle.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > that which is cut down like grass

swath1852

1852 M. Arnold Human Life 19 As the foaming swath Of torn-up water, on the main, Falls heavily away with long~drawn roar.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 89 The sound of every drooping swathe of rain.

1873 H. W. Longfellow Scanderbeg in Aftermath i. 87 The rearguard as it fled, Mown down in the bloody swath Of the battle's aftermath.

1895 A. I. Shand Life E. B. Hamley I. iv. 92 We see the dead lying in swathes as they had fallen.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

swath-width n.

ΚΠ

1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 24 In the middles of some of the swath-widths.

1970 G. F. Burnett in H. W. Mulligan African Trypanosomiases xxiv. 506 When treating an area of woodland, the aircraft must pass over it on parallel runs at regularly spaced intervals, each of which is referred to as a ‘swath width’.

swath-board n. a slanting board attached to the cutter-bar of a mowing machine, designed to force the cut grass, etc., into a narrower swath.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine > attachments

swather1875

swath-board1952

1952 J. W. Day New Yeomen of Eng. vii. 87 After mowing, the lucerne is tedded to remove the wad, left by the swathe board, and is then swept to the tripods and cocked.

1963 Listener 28 Mar. 552/1 The swathe-board..of a grass-mower.

swath-balk n. (also swathe-balk) a ridge of grass left unmown between the swaths, or between the sweeps of the scythe.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > leaving long grass standing > grass left unmown

mane?1523

swath-balk1691

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words A Swathe bauk, a Swarth of new mowen Grass or Corn.

1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 160 (W. Riding Words) Swath-Bauks, the edges of grass between the semicircular cuttings of the scythe.

swath-balked adj. (also swathe-balked)

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed > not > between swaths

swath-balkeda1800

a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Swath-bawk'd, grass that has escaped the scythe. Lanc.

swath-rake n. (also swathe-rake) ‘a wooden rake the breadth of the swath, used to collect the scattered hay or corn’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake

muckrake1366

wording hook1605

swath-rake1652

dew-rake1659

pick1777

twitch rake1798

tooth-rakec1830

pea-rake1867

buck-rake1893

sea-rake1902

1652 Inv. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) (at cited word) Two yron swath rakes.

1658 R. Hubberthorn Rec. Sufferings for Tythes 13 Sweath-rake.

1764 Museum Rusticum 2 31 The swathe-rake; a rake about two yards long, with iron teeth, and a beam in the middle, to which a man fixes himself with a belt.

1766 Compl. Farmer Swath-rake,..much used in Essex for gathering barley after mowing.

swath-turner n. a machine used for turning over swaths of hay.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > machine to turn over swathes of hay

swath-turner1922

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Grindstone, clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack.

1958 Times 27 Oct. 15/4 A swath-turner was used to invert the swath and move it onto dry ground.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	swath
释义	swathswathen.¹ Brit. /swɒθ/, /swɔːθ/, U.S. /swɑθ/ /sweɪð/ Forms: Old English swæþ, swaþu, Middle English swaðe, (Middle English swethe ?, 1500s swade, suath, 1600s swaithe, sweath, 1600s–1800s swaith), Middle English– swath, swathe. Etymology: Old English swæþ, strong n., swaþu, strong feminine, trace, track, corresponding to Middle Low German swat, swâde furrow, swath, measure of land (Low German swad, swatt), Middle Dutch swat (-d-), swâde (Dutch zwad, zwade) swath, Middle German swade, weak masculine, swath, piece of flesh torn off longways (German schwad, strong masculine and neuter, schwade, weak masculine and feminine, swath, space covered by the scythe in a swing); Frisian, (Middle) Low German, early modern Dutch swade* have also the meaning ‘scythe’. The ulterior relations and original meaning of the underlying Germanic root swaþ- are uncertain. Evidence is not available for determining the date of the appearance of the form with a long vowel typically represented by the spelling swathe , since in the early periods swathe , swathes , are phonetically ambiguous; in modern local use, swathe is characteristic of the northern counties; its use in literature has probably been furthered by association with swathe n. †1. Track, trace. literal and figurative. Obsolete.Chiefly or ? only Old English; quot. a1325 is dubious. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something swathc888 forec1250 vorea1387 tracec1420 track1470 rut1552 fore-step1562 cart-rut1601 trail1610 strake1617 cart-ritta1657 cart-ruck1820 wheel-spura1825 wake1851 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §1 He..ne forlæt nan swæð ær he gefehð þæt þæt he æfterspyreð. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 5 May 74 On Oliuetes dune syndon nu gyt þa swæðe dryhtnes fotlasta..ne mihte seo his swaðu..beon þæm oðrum florum geonlicod. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1899) iv. iii. 350 Þa swaðe awuniað regollices lifes [L. regularis vitæ vestigia permanent]. OE Beowulf 2098 Hwæþre him sio swiðre swaðe weardade hand on Hiorte. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3786 Gret fier..for-brende hem..Oc aaron, al hol and fer, Cam him no fieres swaðe ner. 2. a. The space covered by a sweep of the mower's scythe; the width of grass or corn so cut. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > space covered by swathc1475 c1475 Cath. Angl. (Add. MS.) 373/2 Swathe, orbita falcatoris est. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii Take hede thy mower..mowe his swath clene thorowe to that, that was last mowen before. 1664 H. Spelman Glossarium at Dolæ Illud terræ spacium quod uno falcis ictu messor radit. Angl. swath. 1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 27 in Farm-rep. The mowing should be so performed, that neither the strokes of the scythe nor the junction of the swaths can be discerned. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 41 The great mower Time, who cuts so broad a swathe. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ix. 415 While I cut right and left, And mow thee in advance a good wide swath. b. As a measure of grass land: A longitudinal division of a field, ? originally reckoned by the breadth of one sweep of the scythe. local. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land swathc1325 runrig1437 raina1450 selionc1450 rundale1474 quillet1533 rig length1616 plank1631 narrow land1640 rap1710 run-ridge1741 rean1781 slinget1790 slip1837 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > breadth of sweep of scythe as unit swathc1325 c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 573 Duæ Swathes dicti prati jacent ut sequitur. c1325 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) I. 573 Dimidia roda et dimidia Swathe apud Shortedolemede. 1526 Test. of Thomas Jewetson in C. W. Foster Lincoln Wills (1914) I. 166 I bequeth vj swades off medow grounde lyeng att byllesby croffte end for to kepe an obbyt for my soule. 1625 Deed in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) (at cited word) All those foure swathes of land lying and being in Crigleston. 1664 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. All those sixteene swaithes of meadowe-ground lyeing etc. within the lord~shippe of Cropton. 1787 Survey in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) (at cited word) All the grass lands in the Ings are laid out in Gads or swaths. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 158 Two swathes [of land] in the Ings Meadow. †c. The extent of sweep of a scythe. Obsolete. rare.Misunderstood by R. Holme Armoury iii. 332/2 as ‘the long crooked Staff or Pole’ of a scythe. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > extent of scythe's sweep swath1577 mow1825 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 41^v In other places they vse a greater Sythe with a long Suath. d. A stroke of the scythe in reaping. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > cutting with scythe or sickle > stroke of scythe swatha1643 swaff1688 mow1825 a1643 W. Cartwright Poems in Comedies (1651) sig. N5^v A strangled snake, Kill'd before known, perhaps 'mongst Heathen hath Been thought the deed and valour of the Swath. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 30 The hiss of tressy oat-ears rubbing together as their perpendicular stalks of amber-yellow fell heavily to each swath. 3. a. A row or line of grass, corn, or other crop, as it falls or lies when mown or reaped; also collectively, a crop mown and lying on the ground; phr. in (the) swath (cf. Low German in't swatt), lying in this condition.Sometimes, ‘the quantity falling at one sweep of the scythe’ (Robinson Whitby Gloss. 1876 at Sweeathe). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut swathc1325 swarth1552 rew1553 swatch1577 lodging1733 swipe1869 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 154 Une andeyne de prée, a swathe [v.r. a swethe of mede]. c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 112 M[an] mawith of mede a swath. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2508 A mede..Mawene and vne-made,..In swathes sweppene downe, fulle of swete floures. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20^v Grasse lately in swathes is hay for an Oxe. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 25 The strawy Greekes ripe for his edge Fall downe before him like a mowers swath . View more context for this quotation 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 499 Long Swathes of their degraded Grasse, Well show the way their sweeping Scithes did pass. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. vi. 499 If there be plentie of grasse, and that you see it lye thicke in the swathes. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 42 Swaths of new-shorne grasse. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 52 We turned the swath to the wind. 1766 Compl. Farmer Grips, the swaiths, or small heaps of corn, lying in the field, as it is cut down with the scythe. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Hay [is] in swath, when just mowed. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 74 in Farm-rep. That it may come early to the swaith, it is never permitted to eat it down in autumn. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 73 As clover..is rarely tedded, it should be sufficient to leave every tenth swathe for the tithe. 1840 Florist's Jrnl. July 70 Though the swathe from some grounds is not heavy, the quality will everywhere be very superior. 1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. xi. 243 The grass had been cut, and left in swaths. 1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 1 Men..were mowing the frozen grass..and as the swathes fell, they gave a crisp..sound. b. transferred. Applied to growing grass or corn ready for mowing or reaping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > standing crop swath1577 standing crop1683 stand1833 swarth1880 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 45^v To the ende the after swath may be mowed in Autume. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 229 Whose burthened Pasture beares The most aboundant swathe. 1820 J. Keats To Autumn ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 138 While thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers. 1846 J. Parkinson in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 366 In June there was a heavy swath, which was mown for seed. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 592 Within the flowery swathe he heard The sweeping of the scythe. c. to cut a swath (U.S. slang): to make a pompous display, swagger, ‘cut a dash’. Now frequently to cut a wide swath. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms at Cut 1855 Knickerbocker Dec. 617 [He] might better have cut just as big a swath somewhere else. 1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders 348 You folks been cuttin' a pretty wide swath here in New York. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 119 [Maine] Someone conceited..‘feels his oats’, ‘cuts a wide swath’, ‘is one of the big bugs’. 1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 241 He was determined to cut a wide swath with the girls—no easy trick in Philadelphia. 4. transferred and figurative. a. A broad track, belt, strip, or longitudinal extent of something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [noun] > that which has length > a long or continuous extent of something range1601 swath?1606 length1609 swartha1616 stretch1661 ringe1706 span1894 ?1606 M. Drayton Ode vii, in Poemes sig. B8^v Yet many riuers cleere Here glide in siluer swathes, And what of all most deare Buckstons delicious bathes. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. ii. 367 The Notch fortify'd with a Swath of split Quill. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §13. 256 The..Ecliptic, or rather Zodiac, (for like a Belt or Swath, it is 20 deg. broad). 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 41 I began to look o'er my shouther, but there was naething there but the swathes o' mist. 1849 G. Cupples Green Hand xiii Where you saw the water winding about the horizon in long swathes, as it were. 1859 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (new ed.) vi. §339. 105 A breadth or swath of winds in the north-east trades. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Swathe, the entire length of a sea-wave. 1909 R. F. Anderson Logie 100 Years Ago 9 An auld wifie laying out a swath of unbleached cotton. b. Something compared to grass or corn falling before the scythe or sickle; esp. used of troops ‘mown down’ in battle. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > that which is cut down like grass swath1852 1852 M. Arnold Human Life 19 As the foaming swath Of torn-up water, on the main, Falls heavily away with long~drawn roar. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 89 The sound of every drooping swathe of rain. 1873 H. W. Longfellow Scanderbeg in Aftermath i. 87 The rearguard as it fled, Mown down in the bloody swath Of the battle's aftermath. 1895 A. I. Shand Life E. B. Hamley I. iv. 92 We see the dead lying in swathes as they had fallen. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. swath-width n. ΚΠ 1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 24 In the middles of some of the swath-widths. 1970 G. F. Burnett in H. W. Mulligan African Trypanosomiases xxiv. 506 When treating an area of woodland, the aircraft must pass over it on parallel runs at regularly spaced intervals, each of which is referred to as a ‘swath width’. swath-board n. a slanting board attached to the cutter-bar of a mowing machine, designed to force the cut grass, etc., into a narrower swath. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > mowing machine > attachments swather1875 swath-board1952 1952 J. W. Day New Yeomen of Eng. vii. 87 After mowing, the lucerne is tedded to remove the wad, left by the swathe board, and is then swept to the tripods and cocked. 1963 Listener 28 Mar. 552/1 The swathe-board..of a grass-mower. swath-balk n. (also swathe-balk) a ridge of grass left unmown between the swaths, or between the sweeps of the scythe. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > leaving long grass standing > grass left unmown mane?1523 swath-balk1691 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words A Swathe bauk, a Swarth of new mowen Grass or Corn. 1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 160 (W. Riding Words) Swath-Bauks, the edges of grass between the semicircular cuttings of the scythe. swath-balked adj. (also swathe-balked) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed > not > between swaths swath-balkeda1800 a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Swath-bawk'd, grass that has escaped the scythe. Lanc. swath-rake n. (also swathe-rake) ‘a wooden rake the breadth of the swath, used to collect the scattered hay or corn’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake muckrake1366 wording hook1605 swath-rake1652 dew-rake1659 pick1777 twitch rake1798 tooth-rakec1830 pea-rake1867 buck-rake1893 sea-rake1902 1652 Inv. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) (at cited word) Two yron swath rakes. 1658 R. Hubberthorn Rec. Sufferings for Tythes 13 Sweath-rake. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 31 The swathe-rake; a rake about two yards long, with iron teeth, and a beam in the middle, to which a man fixes himself with a belt. 1766 Compl. Farmer Swath-rake,..much used in Essex for gathering barley after mowing. swath-turner n. a machine used for turning over swaths of hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > machine to turn over swathes of hay swath-turner1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Grindstone, clodcrusher, swatheturner, carriagesack. 1958 Times 27 Oct. 15/4 A swath-turner was used to invert the swath and move it onto dry ground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). swathswathen.² Etymology: Variant of swarth n.¹ Compare swad n.¹ regional. = swarth n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland wong971 greenc1225 clowrec1350 bentc1360 swarth?a1400 flaughtc1400 grassa1500 sward?1507 greenswarda1522 sward-earth1541 swarf1599 over-swarth1649 lawn1674 sod1729 swath1776 spine1786 swad1877 turfage1899 padang1909 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > rind swarthc725 bacon skin1580 bacon-rind1606 rind1607 swath1873 1776 in Trans. Soc. Arts (1784) 2 68 Holes, which will hold water, and quite spoil the Turf or new Swath. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 252 I have made him plough in my furrow, when he thought he was turning up his own swathe. 1873 J. Harland Gloss. Words Swaledale Swath, the skin of bacon. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Swarth, Swath, Sward, Swad, grass-land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c888n.²1776
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