SWADDLE
\swˈɒdə͡l], \swˈɒdəl], \s_w_ˈɒ_d_əl]\
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To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
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To beat; to cudgel.
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To swathe, or wrap closely, with a bandage, as a baby: swadding band or cloth, a long strip of linen or cotton, wrapped around an infant, especially one newly born.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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