v. Obs. rare. [f. BE- 1 + SWADDLE v.] trans.

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  1.  To envelop in swaddling-clothes.

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1755.  P. Whitehead, Ep. Thomson (1760), 85 (R.). Infant Limbs beswaddl’d in the lawn.

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  2.  To beat, thrash, ‘swaddle.’

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1598.  Florio, Pestare … to bang, to bebast, to beswaddle with a cudgell.

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