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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swoop  \Swoop\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swooped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Swooping}.]  [OE.  swopen,  usually,  to  sweep,  As  sw[=a]pan  to 
  sweep,  to  rush;  akin  to  G.  schweifen  to  rove,  to  ramble,  to 
  curve,  OHG.  sweifan  to  whirl,  Icel.  sveipa  to  sweep;  also  to 
  AS  sw[=i]fan  to  move  quickly.  Cf  {Sweep},  {Swift},  a.  &  n., 
  {Swipe},  {Swivel}.] 
  1.  To  fall  on  at  once  and  seize;  to  catch  while  on  the  wing; 
  as  a  hawk  swoops  a  chicken. 
 
  2.  To  seize;  to  catch  up  to  take  with  a  sweep. 
 
  And  now  at  last  you  came  to  swoop  it  all  --Dryden. 
 
  The  grazing  ox  which  swoops  it  [the  medicinal  herb] 
  in  with  the  common  grass.  --Glanvill.




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