Associations to the word «Swaddle»

Wiktionary

SWADDLE, verb. To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
SWADDLE, verb. (archaic) To beat; cudgel.
SWADDLE, noun. Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.

Dictionary definition

SWADDLE, verb. Wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope