sweeper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
  2. noun a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
    carpet sweeper.
  3. noun little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

WordNet


Sweep"er noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913