swath

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I think that adding in stacks will make this even more powerful for me, especially when I'm off of my current kick of sports photography and back into concert stuff, when taking eight or twelve exposures at a swath is about catching an expression or some light, not a pass or a shot or a hit.

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  1. noun The width of a scythe stroke or a mowing-machine blade.
  2. noun A path of this width made in mowing.
  3. noun The mown grass or grain lying on such a path.
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  • I think that adding in stacks will make this even more powerful for me, especially when I'm off of my current kick of sports photography and back into concert stuff, when taking eight or twelve exposures at a swath is about catching an expression or some light, not a pass or a shot or a hit. —  GFMorris.com
  • Among the earlier cases in the federal swath was the 2002 takedown of Essex County Executive James Treffinger. —  Blogger News Network
  • The wide swath is a left over from Mayor Richard C. Lee's abortive plan to build a connector from Interstate 95 to the Maltby Lakes in West Haven. —  New Haven Independent
  • The wide-swath prediction for November would be some rain, snow showers and seasonable temperatures. —  Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
  • We are also saving up for a swath of new servers to support our growth.
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  1. Middle English swathe, from Old English swæth, track.

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  1. Early modern English also and properly swathe (a bundle of grass); from Middle English swathe, from Anglo-Saxon swathu, a swath, a track, foot-track, trace, = Middle Dutch swade, Dutch zwad, zwade = Middle Low German swat, Low German swad = Middle High German swadem, German schwad, schwaden, a swath, prob. ‘that which has been mown,’ and related to East Friesic swade, swae, swah = Middle Dutch swade = Middle Low German Low German swade, a scythe, sickle, and to Icelandic svethja, a large knife, svath, a slippery place, svethja, slide or glance off; cf. Norwegian svad, smooth, slippery, svada, shred or slice off, flake off (see swad). Cf. swathe. The Anglo-Saxon form swathu requires a modern English swathe; the form swath is due to some interference, which is indicated also in the erroneous forms swarth and swatch.
 

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