Read full poem →A motor car cuts a swath through the bright air, sharp-beaked,
irresistible, shouting to the wind to make way. A glare of dust and
Dictionary Entry
The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
Origin
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Common Phrases
width swath. swathacross swathswath wideswath broadswath largeswath greatswath wider
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Poetry examples for “swath”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Smelt sweet as gardens wheresoever met;
The level meadow grass was in the swath;
The hedge briar rose hung right across the path,
Read full poem →Then sweeps again ’mong corn and crackling beans,
And swath by swath flops lengthening o’er the ground;
While ’neath some friendly heap, snug shelter’d round
Read full poem →The lonely summer day,
Where mowers cut the pleasant swath
And maidens make the hay.
Read full poem →Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Read full poem →Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Read full poem →No! as the foaming swath
Of torn-up water, on the main,