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   swathe

   /sweɪð/

   noun

   • 1. a broad strip or area of something: "vast swathes of countryside"
   • 2. a row or line of grass, corn, or other crop as it falls or lies when mown or reaped: "if the day is windy, the swathes should be high and narrow"
   • ▪ a strip left clear by the passage of a mowing machine or scythe: "the combine had cut a deep swathe around the border of the fields"

   Word Origin Old Englishswæth, swathu ‘track, trace’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zwad(e) and German Schwade. In Middle English the term denoted a measure of the width of grassland, probably reckoned by a sweep of the mower's scythe.

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