transcription, транскрипция: [ sweɪð, AM swɑ:ð ]
( swathes, swathing, swathed)
Note: The noun is also spelled 'swath'.
1.
A swathe of land is a long strip of land.
Year by year great swathes of this small nation’s countryside disappear.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
2.
A swathe of cloth is a long strip of cloth, especially one that is wrapped around someone or something.
...swathes of white silk.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
3.
To swathe someone or something in cloth means to wrap them in it completely.
She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics...
His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet.
VERB : V n in n , V-ed