swaddle
transitive verbTo wrap, as in cloth.
transitive verbTo wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes.
transitive verbTo wrap or bind in bandages; swathe.
nounA band or cloth used for swaddling.
nounA 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.
transitive verbTo bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; — used esp. of infants.
transitive verbTo beat; to cudgel.
nounAnything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.