English words for 'Alternative form of chimney sweeper.'
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noun
- A chimney sweep.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- 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.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A carpet sweeper.
- One who sweeps.
- (soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector for mines.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- (cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- (hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- (video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- (regional, including Cebu) A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- (US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.
- (cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- (curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- (motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
- little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
- 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
noun
- (colloquial, dialect) A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc.
- (Caribbean) The melon cactus.
- A kind of cooking-pan, having a tin core in the centre.
- A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope.
- (California) Any of several species of Echinocactus.
- an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
noun
- Any of various devices that use a powerful fan to clear an area of smoke.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, blower; A person who blows smoke, especially one who blows smoke rings.
- A device to clear the engine of a coal-powered locomotive of the smoke and cinders resulting from burning coal.
- A device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.
- One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.
- A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
- (beekeeping) A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
- finish with a broom
- (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
noun
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
- (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
- (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
- Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
intj
noun
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- (carpentry, woodworking) The damage done to the exit side of a drilled hole or sawn edge when no sacrificial backerboard is used during the drilling or sawing: the drill bit's or sawblade's exit on the far side causes chips of wood to be broken from the edge.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
- (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- (slang, chiefly sports) A contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory.
- (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
- Synonym of blowout sale.
- (Philippines) a party (such as a birthday party)
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- (slang) An argument; an altercation.
- (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- Synonym of taper fade.
- an easy victory
- a gay festivity
- a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus
noun
verb
verb
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- sweep majestically
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
noun
- stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
- Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
noun
- Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
- The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
- The movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
noun
- A chimney sweep.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- 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.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A carpet sweeper.
- One who sweeps.
- (soccer) A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector for mines.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- (cricket) A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- (hiking) The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- (video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- (regional, including Cebu) A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- (US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.
- (cricket) A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- (curling) A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- (motor racing, slang) A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
- little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
- 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
noun
- (colloquial, dialect) A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc.
- (Caribbean) The melon cactus.
- A kind of cooking-pan, having a tin core in the centre.
- A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope.
- (California) Any of several species of Echinocactus.
- an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
noun
- Any of various devices that use a powerful fan to clear an area of smoke.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, blower; A person who blows smoke, especially one who blows smoke rings.
- A device to clear the engine of a coal-powered locomotive of the smoke and cinders resulting from burning coal.
- A device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.
- One who blows smoke; a liar or bullshit artist.
- A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
- (beekeeping) A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
noun
- The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
- (carpentry, woodworking) The damage done to the exit side of a drilled hole or sawn edge when no sacrificial backerboard is used during the drilling or sawing: the drill bit's or sawblade's exit on the far side causes chips of wood to be broken from the edge.
- An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
- (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
- An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
- An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.
- A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
- (slang, chiefly sports) A contest that is decidedly one-sided; an overwhelming victory.
- (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
- Synonym of blowout sale.
- (Philippines) a party (such as a birthday party)
- The blurring of a tattoo due to ink penetrating too far into the skin and dispersing.
- A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
- (slang) An argument; an altercation.
- (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
- Synonym of taper fade.
- an easy victory
- a gay festivity
- a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus
noun
verb
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
- finish with a broom
- (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
noun
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
- (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
- (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
- Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
intj
noun
- Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
- The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
- The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
- (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
- The movement of matter by a current.
- The matter that has been moved by a current.
- The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
- The act of sweeping or flowing.
noun
- A chimney sweep.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- 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.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- clean by sweeping
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
- finish with a broom
- (nautical) Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- (figurative) To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
noun
- a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.
- (slang, rare) A firearm; especially, a shotgun.
- (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- (countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
- Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.
intj
verb
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- sweep majestically
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
- (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
noun
- stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
- (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
- Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.