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noun

Swath n.

A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

A band or fillet; a swathe.

Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Swath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Swath" Quotes from Famous Books

... with war maps, of course. In Rome the prevailing map was that highly colored, imaginative rearrangement of southern Europe to fit the national aspirations. The new frontier ran along the summits of the Alps and took a wide swath down the Adriatic coast. It was a most flattering prospect and lured many loiterers to the shop windows. At the office of the "Giornale d'Italia" in the Corso there was displayed beside an irredentist map an approximate sketch of what Austria was willing to ...

— The World Decision • Robert Herrick

... of pale yellow roses, intermingled with climbing fuchsias, cast shade and sweetness over them; the porch was bordered by a wide swath of calla lilies, also in full flower, while just beyond these a great shrub of poinsettia dazzled the sight with its ...

— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond

... Chip spread his men to the right and left of the trail, so that in moving forward a wide swath ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... your old man is planted, and that you might have some natural delicacy and wish to refrain from giving him a jar. But come down for an hour and let me talk to you, anyway. The new statesman from Leith is cutting a wide swath. Not a day passes but his voice is heard roaring in the Forum; he has visited all the State institutions, dined and wined the governor and his staff and all the ex-governors he can lay his hands on, and he has that hard-headed and ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... there, said to that proud wooer, 'Lord Eurymachus, if there might be a trial of labour between us two, I know which of us would come out the better man. I would that we two stood together, a scythe in the hands of each, and a good swath of meadow to be mown—then would I match with thee, fasting from dawn until evening's dark. Or would that we were set ploughing together. Then thou shouldst see who would plough the longest and the best ...

— The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy • Padriac Colum

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