sweeper

2 definitions found

sweeper - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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sweeper - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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