“Police are investigating the incident involving a worker operating a mechanical street sweeper who was stopped by a gang of about eight youths.”
“It is thought that nowadays it would be unusual for the scope of general sweeper up words to be cut down under the ejusdem generis rule.”
“I often have found the sweeper poems to be most resonant with adolescents, both here and abroad.”
sweepage
(Britain, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostaticprecipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.