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Orderly :: Orderly (n.) A street sweeper.

Compass :: Compass (n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination..

Sweeping :: Sweeper (n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper..

Sweepstake :: Sweep-saw (n.) A bow-saw.

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff..

Peasweep :: Peasweep (n.) The pewit, or lapwing..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them..

Sweepings :: Sweeping (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation..

Riffraff :: Riffraff (n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

Peasweep :: Peasweep (n.) The greenfinch.

Sweepy :: Sweepwasher (n.) One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..

Soup :: Soup (v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop..

Swipe :: Swipe (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club..

Swipe :: Swipe (n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.

Rasante :: Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them..

Swipe :: Swipe (v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line..

Raff :: Raff (v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep..

Sweep-saw :: Sweepings (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street..

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