[The stem of the vb. SWEEP; cf. bang, crash, dash, etc.] With a sweeping movement or a swoop.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 86. Sweep comes the Kite, and carries away the fattest and hopefullest of all the Brood.
1694. Echard, Plautus, Epidicus, II. iii. Sweep says my Worship with as much Mony as he pleases.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Cl.), 225. Whenever a street makes a turn, sweep go about the houses built upon it, as if it had been turned after they were all set.
1849. Cupples, Green Hand, v. You felt her shoving the long seas aside … then sweep they came after her.
