Definitions for "Swathe"
To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
A bandage; a band; a swath.
an enveloping bandage
wrap in swaddling clothes; "swadddle the infant"
a print term for the the area of substrate covered by the print head on a single print pass. In the TIMP process, the image to be printed is often a lot wider than the width of a print-head so the image is divided into swathes that are printed sequentially