Word Meanings - SWATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. 2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut

Additional info about word: SWATH

zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. 2. 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. 3. A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass.

Related words: (words related to SWATH)

• SCYTHEMAN
  One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay.
• SWATH
  zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling. 2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut
• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• SWATHE
  To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• SWATHER
  A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• SCYTHEWHET
  Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.
• MOW
  A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.