Noun: sweeper
| Singular | sweeper |
| Plural | sweepers |
Sample Sentences
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‘I was [...] the sweeper of the seaboat. I had the job for two years. I know all about keeping boats tiddley.’ [1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 97:]
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..tree will be hanging over the water about canoe level (a sweeper).. [2007, Basic Essentials Canoe Paddling, 3rd - Page 62]
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So named because they can sweep passengers from a boat, they can also capsize a canoe, especially when paddlers lean too far away from the sweeper.. [1975, Verne Huser, River Running: Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing, Rafting - Page 102]
Nouns inflected like sweeper
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”, literally “sweeper”). See: Middle English Nouns '
swepere'.
Verbs referencing "sweeper"
Icelandic Nouns
sópur.