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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 swad·dle /ˈswɑdḷ/
 襁褓(vt.)用襁褓包,束縛

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swad·dle n.  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
    They put me in bed in all my swaddles.   --Addison.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swad·dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swaddled p. pr. & vb. n. Swaddling ]
 1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
    They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.   --Addison.
 2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 swaddle
      v : wrap in swaddling clothes; "swadddle the infant" [syn: swathe]