What's the difference between staddle and swaddle?

Staddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane.
  • (v. i.) The frame of a stack of hay or grain.
  • (v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
  • (v. i.) A small tree of any kind, especially a forest tree.
  • (v. t.) To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.
  • (v. t.) To form into staddles, as hay.

Example Sentences:

Swaddle


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
  • (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
  • (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
  • (2) This "swaddling clothes test" has made it possible to establish, for the first time, the microbiological characteristics indicating the degree of epidemic well-being in obstetric institutions.
  • (3) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
  • (4) There is a group in the foreground of pale-skinned people who in some ways represent the flight into Egypt – a woman with a swaddled baby, a bearded Joseph figure, a sinister child with a bow and arrow, and an even more sinister child battling a nasty goat next to a spilled water vessel.
  • (5) Some current investigators have noted that the inhibition of movement by swaddling seems to quiet irritable babies and this might be a useful nursing intervention.
  • (6) Swaddling is an ancient practice which has been used for many reasons in almost every country in the world.
  • (7) High levels of insulation for a given room temperature were found particularly at night and in winter, and were associated with the use of thick or doubled duvets and with swaddling.
  • (8) Let your kid roll around in the dirt, get a pet – don’t swaddle them in a sterile cloth.
  • (9) The review finds no evidence for the benefits of acupuncture, chiropractic care, or for massage or swaddling for comfort.
  • (10) Effective strategies to care for these infants included recognizing states and cues, swaddling, use of pacifier, waking to eat, and smaller feedings.
  • (11) Erla, 37, a lawyer, swaddled in a thick, red mac, says that as an Icelandic woman you can always count on the support of your sisters, and it was in this spirit she attended the Women Strike Back march last year, a protest against the pay gap and sexual violence.
  • (12) In Turkey and China the ancient practice of swaddling is still commonly practiced.
  • (13) Speaking in Germany last week, Neil MacGregor described his compatriots’ habit of swaddling themselves in their past as if it were a blanket.
  • (14) At 2 weeks, infants' HR levels and crying declined significantly more rapidly in the pacifier than in the swaddling condition.
  • (15) Nearby, a young mother sits on the cold, damp pavement with her tiny infant swaddled in a blanket, begging from passersby.
  • (16) The "swaddling ethos" is posited to serve as a homeostat whose regulatory function can be discerned through the analysis of family structure and process, in particular through the explication of values, affective patterns, roles, boundaries, and structural units within the family.
  • (17) During the next four days of the same months, the same infants were monitored with no swaddling.
  • (18) Due to the open nature of the event, it was also about people who weren’t sure why Reed's dark lyrics were echoing through a manicured plaza, just outside New York City's performing arts library: I'm bigger, smarter, stronger, tough Yet sensitive and kind And though I could crush you like a bug It will never cross my mind The crowd was littered with people swaddled in down jackets to brace from the cold and far more people wore leather jackets than appropriate for the chilly temperature.
  • (19) No clear long-term effects of swaddling have been demonstrated.
  • (20) Might it be safest, if the Wass experiment goes ahead, to pick a lightweight Windsor, such as the hawker of endorsements Zara Phillips or the less worrying of the two Fergie daughters, then swaddle the royal inside a light casing of removable padding that could be adjusted in case of weight gain?