Swaddle /(?)/

1. Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

   They put me in bed in all my swaddles.

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.

2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.]