n. A bandage or long strip of cloth used for wrapping a child, or for bandaging in any similar manner; a swaddling-band.To bind with long and narrow bandages, or as if with bandages; swathe: said especially of young children, who are still bandaged in this manner in many parts of Europe to prevent them from using their limbs freely, owing to a fancy that those who are left free in infancy become deformed.To beat; cudgel.