2 definitions found
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 1.6 [wn]:
sweeper
n 1: revolving brushes pick up dirt as it is pushed over a carpet
[syn: {carpet sweeper}]
2: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an
oblong compressed body
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