Swaddle

(swŏd'dl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. SWADDLED; p. pr. & vb. n. SWADDLING.] [From the noun. See infra.] 1. To bind, as with a bandage; to bind tightly with clothes; to swathe;—used generally of infants; as, to swaddle a child. They swaddled me in my night-gown. Addison. 2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs. and low.] Hudibras.

n. [A-S. swædhil, swedhil, swedhel, a bundle, from swedhian, to bind; D. zwachtel, zwachtelen.] Clothes bound tight round the body. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.