† swath-band, swathe-band Obs.
Forms: 4 suaþebend, 6 swadeband, sweathband, 6–7 swathe-band, (9 Hist.) swath-band; 7 swathe-bond.
[f. stem of swathe v. + band n.1 (bend n.1, bond n.1). Cf. swathing-bands.]
1. pl. Swaddling-bands, swaddling-clothes.
| c 1315 Shoreham iii. 127 In suaþebendes hy hyne dyȝte, Ase hyt hys þe chyldes ryȝte. 1563 Mirr. Mag., Hastings xcii, Euen in thy Swathebands out commission goeth To loose thy breath, that yet but yongly bloweth. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vi. iv. 23 Euery part, that vnder sweathbands lay. 1632 B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. iv, Could they teach each other how to win I' their swath bands. 1641 J. Trappe Theol. Theol. i. 6 The Babe of Bethlehem (lapt up in the swath⁓bands of the holy History). 1652 Sparke Prim. Devot. (1663) 534 Did not princes Christ in swath-bands greet? 1656 J. Smith Pract. Physick 208 After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands. |
2. A bandage, binder.
| 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxx. 32 One leg, and his waste, in swadeband rold to be, And crutches by his side. 1615 Sylvester Job Triumph. iv. 408 Whenas I made the Cloud a clowt for it, And blackest Darkness as a swath-band fit. 1672 Ovid de Arte Amandi 76 About a faint and slender body wear A flannel swathband or warm stomacher. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 434/2 A Swathe Band..Of some called a Rowller, or a Linnen Rowller. |
3. transf. An enveloping membrane. rare.
| 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvii. 45 Another external [membrane] from the Peritonæum, which adhæres but loosely, whence they term it the Swath-band of the Kidneys [i.e. fascia renum]. |