A single action of sweeping. • The person who steers a dragon boat. • A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. • A chimney sweep. • A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices). • A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat. • A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins. • A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland. • The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage. • A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs. • Violent and general destruction. • A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding. • In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table. • The compass of any turning body or of any motion. • Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line. • A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them. • A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side. • The almond furnace. • A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. • Any of the blades of a windmill. • The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. • Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae). • An expanse or a swath, a strip of land. • singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”) • The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.