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  • English Word Sweep Definition To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To strike with a long stroke.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To brush swiftly over the surface of anything; to pass with switness and force, as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner; as, the wind sweeps across the plain; a woman sweeps through a drawing-room.
  • English Word Sweep Definition To pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The act of sweeping.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep.
  • English Word Sweep Definition Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease.
  • English Word Sweep Definition Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass.
  • English Word Sweep Definition Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line.
  • English Word Sweep Definition One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper.
  • English Word Sweep Definition A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
  • English Word Sweep Definition A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The almond furnace.
  • English Word Sweep Definition A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
  • English Word Sweep Definition In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam.
  • English Word Sweep Definition The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
  • English Word Sweep-saw Definition A bow-saw.
  • English Word Sweepage Definition The crop of hay got in a meadow.
  • English Word Sweeper Definition One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
  • English Word Sweeping Definition of Sweep
  • English Word Sweeping Definition Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
  • English Word Sweepings Definition Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
  • English Word Sweepstake Definition A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
  • English Word Sweepstake Definition A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.