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sweeper
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Word definitions for sweeper in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweeper \Sweep"er\, n. One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. --Huxley.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sweeper is a defensive position in football, so called because their job is to 'sweep up' any attacking moves which pass other defenders. It was most commonly used by football teams in Europe until the 1990s. While the position usually has solely defensive ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the device is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet sweeper ] little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who sweeps floors or chimneys 2 A detector (for mines) 3 A small, tropical marine perciform fish of the family ''(taxlink Pempheridae family noshow=1)'', typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes. 4 (context football English) ...
Usage examples of sweeper.
Then came the servants, observing precedence--butler, hamal, dog-boy, dhobie, sweeper, three gardeners--all salaaming with both hands, and Mahommed Babar standing straight as a ramrod over to the right because he was of the North and a Moslem, and would not submit to comparison with Hindus.
The sweeper swept himself away, then swept back again and dropped a meringue swan, unburned but missing a tail, into her lap.
All these ships were crewed by former stevedores, clerks, rackers, counters, tally-hands, sweepers, and managers.
At the moment you are showing the intelligence of first level ceboid, a sweeper of dung.
Then came the servants, observing precedence--butler, hamal, dog-boy, dhobie, sweeper, three gardeners--all salaaming with both hands, and Mahommed Babar standing straight as a ramrod over to the right because he was of the North and a Moslem, and would not submit to comparison with Hindus.
Harassing fire for the most part, although a Hudathan trooper had been wounded the day before, and a LaNorian street sweeper had been killed by a spent round.
A small scoop front functioned as a vacuum, and brushes on retracted tentacles betrayed its second duty as a sweeper.
When a chorus of shouts announced that the primary sweeper teams were ready, Lanyan instructed them to reanchor themselves to the deck.
Italians together with some straggly irregulars local charwomen, reformed bagladies, London sweepers.
It was plain to every milkmaid and street sweeper in the rue Royale that this British officer was glad to be alive, delighted to be in Belgium, and that he expected every one in Brussels to share his evident enjoyment of life, health and happiness.
Then the clerks and cashiers and floorwalkers and cash girls went home and the store was closed for the night, although the sweepers and scrubbers remained to clean the floors for the following day.
House of Sweepers toiled to clean away the hideous mess that the multitudes of other festival-goers were creating.
The Sweepers in their purple loincloths went dancing by, whisking dangerous spirits out of the roadway with their little brooms, and then, in silence, came the heart of the Procession out of the heavy morning mists that lay at the lower end of town.
It was a chronic problem keeping sweepers because of the nature of the job.
Now I understand why people spend their time as street sweepers or on assembly lines.