(a) A gateway; a gate of a city, castle, house, etc.; also, a doorway; flod gate, a floodgate; (b) the movable barrier which closes off a gateway; one of the valves of a double gate; ?a portcullis……
(a) A cloth binding used as a bandage or a restraint; -- also pl.; (b) swathel bond (binde), a swaddling band; swathel clout, a swaddling cloth; (c) ?as adj.: tightly bound; ?error for swa athel [cp……