sweep

Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.

He was, perhaps, the English railwayman's conception of the French mécanicien - short and broad, black as a sweep even before we left Calais (but no blacker than I was on arrival at Paris) and wearing goggles and his uniform cap back to front.

Bradman attempted a sweep, but in fact top edged the ball to the wicket keeper

Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.

The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep.

the sweep of an epidemic disease

the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye

the road which makes a small sweep

I am primarily a sweep rower.

Octopus clambered about from hole to hole and startled sweep blurred away as we passed.

The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.