SPage 1029
- 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.