It is an energetic kicker that scatters the hay swaths and drops the hay loosely to dry between showers.
The probable use of these swaths may have been to defend the legs in forcing their way through the thorny brakes of the forests.
The same swaths are used both by men and women in Jamaica upon the smaller parts of their arms up to the armpits, similar to the old-fashioned sleeves in Spain.
Besides the part of the town that is utterly wiped out, there are two great swaths cut through that portion which from lower down seems almost uninjured.
It is three blocks wide and makes a huge "Y," with the gap through which the flood came for the base and main strip and the swaths for branches.
The neatly cut swaths of the little man with the jimdandy mower came to a dramatic end in the middle of the yard.
For three hours he had been laying the tumbled swaths in winding tracks across the field, and he had a very good excuse for going to the well, indeed.
Presently he fell to raking his shaggy hair with his long fingers; in a moment it was as disorderly as theswaths of clover hay lying out in the moonlight in the little stone-set field.
Shenac as she watched the swinging of the scythes, and saw the broad swaths of grain that fell as they passed on.
It was a day in the beginning of harvest--a rainy day, coming after so long a time of drought and dust and heat that all rejoiced in it, even though it fell on golden sheaves and on long swaths of new-cut grain.
When they had got within close range our battery opened on them with case shot and cannister, cutting swaths in the ranks of the advancing forces, but they would close up and come on and it looked as though the battery was lost.
Damn ’em,” he cried chokingly, and shook a clenched fist toward theswaths of civilization.
Those wide swaths which man had mowed through the forest to him meant no advancement.
The gaps we make, the swaths we mow, can be seen in the column, for we are only ten or fifteen rods away.
Two titan swaths of destruction stretched from the glen to the Frye farmyard, monstrous prints covered the bare patches of ground, and one side of the old red barn had completely caved in.
There were more swaths and monstrous prints, but there was no longer any house.
On either hand our cannon enfilade, Crushing great gaps along the stalwart lines; In front our deadly rifles volley still, Mowing the toppling swaths of daring men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swaths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
