swatch

IPA: swˈɑtʃ

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
A selection of such samples bound together.
(figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
(figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
(Northern England, obsolete) A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.
(UK) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
A brand of relatively cheap Swiss analog watches

Examples of "swatch" in Sentences

Jean, The Christine Duchrow swatch is seriously beautiful.
Glauber's salt, and the weight of the swatch which is being used is 5 grams.
You should always knit a piece at least 4″ square called a swatch to check your gauge.
I hope that by frogging the "swatch" I can keep myself focussed on the linen shawl and the cabled cardigan.
Watching Washington wrestle with how to cut another swatch from the national budget cloth is getting darn depressing.
If you want to use up the yarn, wait until you are at the end of the project in case you need to refer to the swatch as you work on the project.
Glauber's salt, and the weight of the swatch which is being used is 5 grammes, the following calculations are to be made to give the quantities of the ingredients required: --
On this north-west part of the Goodwins, on which hours of the deepest interest could be spent, you can walk a distance of at least two miles, but you are separated by the great north-east swatch of deep water from getting to the extensive north-east jaw on the other side of the swatch, which is also full of wrecks, and round and along the edges of which, on the calmest day, somehow the surf and breakers for ever roar.