Definition of "swathing" []

• Present participle of swathe. (verb)
• A wrapping. (noun)

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• "Saringer worked on Vonn around the clock, performing lymph drainage (a type of massage used to improve flow and drainage and speed healing), cheese therapy (wrapping an injury in Austrian topfen cheese, thought by some to promote healing), swathing the shin in castor oil and wrapping it in saran wrap."
• "Pre-Kellerman, taking the sun or the waters had been a very cumbersome experience, complete with swirling layers of skirts and the swathing of the upper torso and arms."
• "He was slender to emaciation, cavernously checked, roll after roll of skin, no longer encasing flesh or muscle, hanging grotesquely down his neck and swathing the Adam's apple so that only occasionally, with queer swallowing motions, did it peep out of the mummy-wrappings of skin and sink back again from view."