[ swoth, swawth ]
/ swɒθ, swɔθ /
the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
the piece or strip so cut.
a line or ridge of grass, grain, or the like, cut and thrown together by a scythe or mowing machine.
a strip, belt, or long and relatively narrow extent of anything.
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cut a swath , to make a pretentious display; attract notice: The new doctor cut a swath in the small community.
before 900; Middle English; Old English swæth footprint; cognate with German Shwade
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swash plate,
swastika,
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swatch,
swath
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swathe,
Swati,
Swatow,
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swatterDictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Still, a 30-something who knows his way around a cufflink is viewed with some suspicion by a swath of the French left.
He spoke of how well the present campaign had done in his home borough, particularly in a swath that he termed West Brooklyn.
A swath of regular military allies have sought postponements or rejected the idea of firing missiles toward Damascus.
In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry.
Why would Kristen choose to cheat with her SWATH director when she had Thor the god of thunder on the same movie set?
For several days his voracious plowshare had been turning over the prairie in long ribbons of swath like the pages of a book.
I—I can clean the rust from my old sword and I am sure it will cut as red a swath now as it did in '63.
Well cut a swath out there, Betty, thatll make em sit up and take notice.
She passed on her own errand, cutting, as it were, a swath of spirit through the soft influence of the spring.
Allison laid over in a vertical bank, and, as he swung back his guns, cut a swath across the enemy craft.
the width of one sweep of a scythe or of the blade of a mowing machine
the strip cut by either of these in one course
the quantity of cut grass, hay, or similar crop left in one course of such mowing
a long narrow strip or belt
Old English swæth; related to Old Norse svath smooth patch
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