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Swat [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SWAT

Swat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A swath. [Not in use.]

Swat Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. imp. of Sweat.

2. of Sweat

Swatch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A swath.

2. A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

Swate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To sweat.

Swate Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. of Sweat.

Swath [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. swoth.

2. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the sythe in mowing or cradling.

3. The whole breadth or sweep of a sythe in mowing or cradling; as a wide swath

4. A band or fillet. They wrapped me in a hundred yards of swath

Swath [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

2. The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

3. A band or fillet; a swathe.

Swathe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bind with a band, bandage or rollers; as, to swathe a child.

2. To bind or wrap.

3. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when first born.

Swathe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.

2. A bandage; a band; a swath.

Swathed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Swathe

Swather [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

Swathing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Swathe

Swatow Encyclopedia Britannica

SWATOW (also, less frequently, Swartow and Shan-row ), a port of China, in the province of Kwang-tung, opened to foreign trade in 1869. It is situated at the mouth of the main branch of the river Han, which 30 miles inland flows past the great city of Chow-chu or Tai-chu (Tie-chu), and the surrounding country is more populous and full of towns and villages than any other part of the province. English merchants settled on Double Island in the river as early as 1856; but the city, which is built on ground but recently recovered from the sea, was formerly a mere fishing village. The trade of the port has rapidly increased. In 1869 718 vessels of all nations entered or cleared (of 310,500 tons burden), in 1884 1387 vessels (1,282,936 tons)—the total value of the trade being respectively £4,800,000 and £5,519,772. The surrounding country is a great sugar-cane district producing annually about 2,000,000 piculs (= 133 1 / 3 lb) of sugar, and there is an extensive refinery in the town employing upwards of 600 workmen and possessing a reservoir for 7,000,000 gallons of water. Next in value comes the manufacture of bean-cake, which is also imported in large quanti- ties from New-chwang, Chefoo, Shanghai, Amoy, and HongKong (total import in 1874, 1,408,384 piculs; in 1884, 2,539,710). Among the leading exports are tea (since about 1872); grass-cloth, manufactured at Swatow from so-called Taiwan hemp (the fibre of the Boehmeria nivea from Formosa); pine-apple cloth, manufactured in the villages about Kieh-Yang (a town 22 miles distant); oranges, for which the district is famous; cheap fans; and pewter, iron, and tin wares. Swatow is also a great emigration port. In 1870 about 22,000 Chinese embarked there for Singapore, Bangkok, and Saigon; and the number of emigrants has since ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 733
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Swatte Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. of Sweat.