swaddling band (swodlingband)

[ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkne a swaddling band for it. Job xxxviii. 9. One [People] from their swadling Bands Releas'd their Infant's Feet and Hands. II. n. An inhabitant of Swabia, an early duchy of Germany, corresponding nearly to the greater part of modern Würtemberg and southwestern Bavaria. The Swabian dialect is one of the principal High German idioms. swab-pot (swob'pot), n. In founding , an iron swaddling-clothes (swod'ling-klōwhz), n. pl . IMG:content-2578.png:[blocks in formation]