What is "hoovers"

Usage examples of "hoovers".

This time Jane thought she could see faces in the crowd that were like the faces of Trewissick that she knew: Penhallows, Palks, Hoovers, Tregarrens, Thomases, all anxious, all perplexed, casting fearful glances both to land and sea.

But he hoovers up every scrap of gossip and information dropped within a surprisingly wide radius.

If Hoovers had been invented in those days Polly would have thought it was the sound of a Hoover being worked a long way off - several rooms away and several floors below.