Sentence:  <WSD>Swatch</WSD>, sb. [substantive] A wooden tally. / In the days of spinning-wheels and home-woven cloth, &c., it was customary to affix <WSD>Swatches</WSD> to the various rolls of cloth sent to the dyer's, which in this part of w:Cleveland, England 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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.