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

Sward :: Swape (n.) See Sweep, n., 12..

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..

Shadoof :: Shadoof (n.) A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation..

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

Draught :: Draught (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To strike with a long stroke.

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net..

Whisking :: Whisking (a.) Sweeping along lightly.

Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The act of sweeping.

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.

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

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The almond furnace.

Cat-harping :: Cat-harping (n.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Housework :: Housework (n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like..

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

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

Broom :: Broom (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom..

Swal :: Swaip (v. i.) To walk proudly; to sweep along.

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