n. [ AS. swe&unr_;il, swe&unr_;el, fr. swe&unr_;ain to bind. See Swathe. ] Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. [ 1913 Webster ]

They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat; to cudgel. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The shoveler. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ See Twattle. ] To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Silly talk; gabble; fustian. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + swaddle. ] To take a swaddle from; to unswathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Waddled p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling ] [ Freq. of wade; cf. AS. wædlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade. ] To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [ R. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, waddles. [ 1913 Webster ]