![]() 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.(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc.The sweep''' of a door the '''sweep of the eye The compass of any turning body or of any motion.(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.(metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.To sweep the bottom of a river with a net (nautical) To draw or drag something over.Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.Īnd like a peacock sweep along his tail.Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain. To brush against or over to rub lightly along.* 2005, ( Lesley Brown) (translator), Sophist by ( Plato), :Īs the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?.To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. To sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney To clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in. There was not a speck of dirt on them left. I ' broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. * Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart, Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59:Īfter that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming '.It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen. ![]() Birch'', Chapman & Hall (1857), ''Our Street page 8: *, Our Street'', in ''Christmas Books: Mrs.“ Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. * 1855 September 29,, "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Bradbury and Evens (1856), page 206:.
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