† swath-bandswathe-bandn.
Obsolete.
1. plural. Swaddling-bands, swaddling-clothes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > for a baby > swaddling clothes
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c1315 Shoreham iii. 127 In suaþebendes hy hyne dyȝte, Ase hyt hys þe chyldes ryȝte.
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xcii Euen in thy Swathebands out commission goeth To loose thy breath, that yet but yongly bloweth.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc4 Euery part, that vnder sweathbands lay. View more context for this quotation
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. v. 25 in Wks. (1640) III Could they teach each other how to win I' their swath bands.
1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. i. 6 The Babe of Bethlehem (lapt up in the swath~bands of the holy History).
1652 E. Sparke Scintillula Altaris (1663) 534 Did not princes Christ in swath-bands greet?
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 208 After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands.
2. A bandage, binder.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun]
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1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxx. 32 One leg, and his waste, in swadeband rold to be, And crutches by his side.
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 943 When as I made the Clowd a Clowt for it, And blackest Darkness as a Swathe-band fit.
1672 Ovid de Arte Amandi 76 About a faint and slender body wear A flannel swathband or warm stomacher.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 434/2 A Swathe Band..Of some called a Rowller, or a Linnen Rowller.
3. transferred. An enveloping membrane. rare.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > membrane > [noun]
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1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 45 Another external [membrane] from the Peritonæum, which adhæres but loosely, whence they term it the Swath-band of the Kidneys [i.e. fascia renum].
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