Sweeper

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sweeper \Sweep"er\, n.
     One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a
     sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
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           It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.


                                                    --Huxley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sweeper
       n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
       2: a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt
          as the device is pushed over a carpet [syn: {carpet
          sweeper}]
       3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an
          oblong compressed body