Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sweeper"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sweeper \Sweep"er\, n.
One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a
sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.
--Huxley.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sweeper
n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
2: a cleaning device with revolving brushes that pick up dirt
as the device is pushed over a carpet [syn: {carpet
sweeper}]
3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an
oblong compressed body
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.