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# swathe

«swathe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, wide strip or area of land, crops or something else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a swathe, swathes); verb (swathe, swathes, swathed, swathing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A swathe is a long, wide strip or area of land, crops or something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#m1)

2) To swathe something is to wrap it up in cloth or bandages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#m2)

3) A swathe can be a large part of a group: «a swathe of the country». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and geography writing, «a swathe of forest» means a big strip of it. When grass or corn is cut with a scythe, each cut row is a swathe. «Cut a swathe through» means to move through and knock things down. In stories a hurt person is «swathed in bandages» or a baby «swathed in blankets».

### examples

- The fire burned a wide swathe of forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x1)
- The baby was swathed in a warm blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x2)
- His arm was swathed in bandages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x3)
- The farmer cut the hay in long swathes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x4)
- A swathe of bluebells covered the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x5)
- Snow fell across a huge swathe of Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/#x6)

### note

Also spelt «swath» (especially in the US) for the strip meaning. Rhymes with «bathe». Regular verb: swathed.

### In the corpora

- [Sleep takes him «as a swathe of barley is folded into the arms of the reaping machine».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swathe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swathe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.