Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun swathing

1 sense of swathing

Sense 1
swathing -- (cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby))
       => covering -- (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb swathe

1 sense of swathe

Sense 1
swaddle, swathe -- (wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant")
       => bind -- (make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women")