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Definition of Swaths
1. swath [n] - See also: swath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaths
Literary usage of Swaths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties: Comprizing Kent, Surrey, Sussex by Marshall (William), Mr Marshall, William Marshall (1798)
"In doing this, the swaths are rolled, or piled part after part, with large,
crooked, long- toothed rakes, made for this purpose, and well adapted to it, ..."
2. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1810)
"... is to rake the grass-cocks of the last night into double wind rows, and the
grass which was this morning spread from the swaths into single wind rows. ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1810)
"... and the grass which was this morning spread from the swaths into single wind
rows. Afterwards, the bustard-cocks of the last night are made up into ..."
4. Nebraska, Its Advantages, Resources and Drawbacks...: Its Advantages by Edwin A. Curley (1875)
"... A, with the rubbish heaps, be not enough when fired to prevent their alighting
or to drive them away, a few swaths, cut from the most suitable crops, ..."
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