sweeper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sweeper	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweeper n an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet Synonym(s): carpet sweeper, sweeper little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
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.