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▸ verb: (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
▸ verb: (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
▸ verb: (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
▸ verb: (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
▸ verb: (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
▸ verb: (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
▸ verb: (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
▸ verb: (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
▸ verb: To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
▸ verb: To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
▸ verb: To strike with a long stroke.
▸ verb: (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
▸ verb: (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
▸ verb: To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
▸ verb: (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
▸ noun: A single action of sweeping.
▸ noun: The person who steers a dragon boat.
▸ noun: A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
▸ noun: A chimney sweep.
▸ noun: A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
▸ noun: (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
▸ noun: A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
▸ noun: A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
▸ noun: (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
▸ noun: (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
▸ noun: Violent and general destruction.
▸ noun: (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
▸ noun: (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
▸ noun: The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
▸ noun: Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
▸ noun: A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
▸ noun: (rowing) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
▸ noun: (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: Any of the blades of a windmill.
▸ noun: (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
▸ noun: Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
▸ noun: An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
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