Sweep

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An very long oar used for guiding bateaus and like boats. It was used in place of a rudder.
In rowing a sweep is a boat that has only one oar per rower. This is as opposed to a scull in which each rower has one oar on each side of the boat.
A sweep, a grappling technique
For the series of books by Cate Tiernan, see Sweep (book series).
For the open source digital audio editor, see Sweep (software).
For the horse-drawn farming equipment, see hay sweep.
For the dog glove puppet, see Sweep (puppet)
For the American football play that is run to the outside see sweep (football play)
In sports, a team that wins an elimination series in the minimum possible number of games is said to have "swept" its opponent (as in winning four straight games in a best-of-seven playoff in baseball, basketball, or ice hockey).
In baseball, a team that wins all of a regular season series of games against an opponent is said to have swept its opponent. Rarely, a team will win a "season sweep," wherein it does not lose a single game against a particular opponent all year. In an instance where the home team has already won the first two games of a three-game or the first three games of a four-game series, fans will sometimes bring brooms to the game and brandish them as a way of taunting the visiting team.
In aviation, sweep or wing sweep is the angle between the wing and the perpendicular to the fuselage. Aircraft wings are normally swept backwards for yaw stability and an increase in maximum flight Mach number. See swept wing
For tools and wood carving, see gouge.
For the sweep line algorithm see Line segment intersection.
Also a technique in guitar playing, sweep means laying your finger in some part of the fretboard, then pick the notes you have pressed, and immediately remove the finger from the fretboard. The sound is a harmonic screek.
Several fishes:
* Sea sweep, Scorpis aequipinnis.
* Silver sweep, Scorpis lineolata.
* Black pomfret, Parastromateus niger.
* Cornet fish, Fistularia tabacaria.

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