SWOOP

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

2.
v.

To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. And now at last you came to swoop it all. Dryden. The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass. Glanvill.

3.
v.

To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.

4.
v.

To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.] Drayton.

5.
n.

A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop. L'Estrange.

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