swaddling

transitive verb swaddled, swaddling

1. to wrap (a newborn baby) in swaddling clothes, a blanket, etc.
2. to bind in or as in bandages; swathe

Origin: ME swathlen, prob. altered (infl. by swathen, to swathe) < swethlen < OE swethel, swaddling band, akin to swathian, to swathe

noun

Origin: ME swathil < OE swethel: see swaddlethe