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A single action of sweeping.
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Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.
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The person who steers a dragon boat.
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A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
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A chimney sweep.
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A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
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A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
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Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper
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A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
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Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
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A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
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A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
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Violent and general destruction.
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the sweep of an epidemic disease
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A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
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In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
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The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
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the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye
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Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
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A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
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A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
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I am primarily a sweep rower.
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(refining) The almond furnace.
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A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
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Any of the blades of a windmill.
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(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
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Any of several sea chub in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.
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An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.