Swad"dle (?), n. [AS. sweil, sweel, fr. sweain to bind. See Swathe.]
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
They put me in bed in all my swaddles.
Addison.
© Webster 1913.
Swad"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling (?).]
1.
To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.
Addison.
2.
To beat; to cudgel.
[Obs.]
Hudibras.
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