sweeper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
noun a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
noun little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

Ask Lone Sahib's sweeper's wife." — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
So we went into the Home of the Street Sweepers. — Anthem, Ayn Rand
It has a lot of snags and sweepers and buried stuff. — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough

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