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swad⋅dle

  [swod-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bind (an infant, esp. a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
2. to wrap (anything) round with bandages.
–noun
3. a long, narrow strip of cloth used for swaddling or bandaging.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME, in suadiling (ger.); akin by gradation to ME swethel (n.), OE; see swathe, -le
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swad·dle   (swŏd'l)   
tr.v.   swad·dled, swad·dling, swad·dles
  1. To wrap or bind in bandages; swathe.
  2. To wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes.
  3. To restrain or restrict.
n.  A band or cloth used for swaddling.

[Middle English swadlen, probably back-formation from swadling (band), swaddling (cloth), or swathelbonde, both from *swathelen, probably frequentative of Old English swathian, to swathe.]
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Swaddle

Swad"dle\, n. [AS. swe?il, swe?el, fr. swe?ain to bind. See Swathe.] Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

They put me in bed in all my swaddles. --Addison.

Swaddle

Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling.]

1. 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.

2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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swaddle 
c.1300, probably a frequentative form of O.E. swaþian (see swathe). Phrase swaddling clothes is from Coverdale (1535) translation of Luke ii:7.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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