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in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

A mop for sweeping ovens; a malkin.

Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Of or pertaining to society; social. The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation. Lamb.

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

The act of sweeping.

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.

One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.

Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.

A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. R. A. Proctor.

A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc. [Colloq. or Dial.]

Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward. "The whirlwind of hounds and hunters." Macaulay.

The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff. This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl. J. Fletcher.

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

Sweeping along lightly.