Sweeper
['swiːpə] or ['swipɚ]
Definition
(noun.) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body.
(noun.) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.).
Editor: Ronda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
Typist: Millie
Examples
- The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the house, the folding bed, tilting chair, carpet sweeper, and the piano. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checker: Lola