sweeper

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sweeper \Sweep"er\, n.
   One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a
   sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
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         It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.
                                                  --Huxley.
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