Swashed vs Swathed - What's the difference?
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(swash)
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
(typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
To swagger; to bluster and brag.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
*1851 ,
To fall violently or noisily.
(swathe)
A bandage; a band;
(chiefly, British, usually in plural) A group of people.
* 2012 , The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue,
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, date=October 23
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To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
* Archbishop Abbot
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
As verbs the difference between swashed and swathed
is that swashed is past tense of swash while swathed is past tense of swathe.swashed
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*swash
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Noun
- (Moxon)
Verb
(es)- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- (Holinshed)
See also
* swashbuckler * swash letterAnagrams
*swathed
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*swathe
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Noun
(en noun)- Large swathes will be affected by the tax increase.
Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box
- As well as the advantages of abused office, Mr Chávez can boast enduring popularity among a broad swathe of poorer Venezuelans. They like him for his charisma, humble background and demotic speech.
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Verb
(swath)- Their children are never swathed or bound about with anything when they are first born.
- The head was swathed in linen bands that had been white, but were now stained and discoloured with damp, but of this I shall not speak more, and beneath the chin-cloth the beard had once escaped.