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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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom..

Sweepstake :: Sweepstake (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.

Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep.

Scovel :: Scovel (n.) A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.

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

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

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away..

Peasweep :: Peasweep (n.) The greenfinch.

Swoopstake :: Swoopstake (n.) See Sweepstake.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding..

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

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..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep..

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