swath

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SWATH, noun swoth. 1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the sythe in mowing or cradling. 2. The whole breadth or sweep of a sythe in mowing or cradling; as a wide swath 3. A band or fillet. They wrapped me in a hundred yards of swath
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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