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crossing-sweepers

crossing-sweepers is the plural of crossing-sweeper.

Meaning of crossing-sweeper

Noun

crossing-sweeper (plural crossing-sweepers)

  1. (historical) Someone whose job is to sweep street crossings.
    • There was one giant — a black 'un — as left his carawan some year ago and took to carrying coach-bills about London, making himself as cheap as crossing-sweepers.1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Nineteenth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC

Questions about crossing-sweepers

What is crossing-sweepers the plural of?
Crossing-sweepers is the plural of crossing-sweeper.

Words near crossing-sweepers in the dictionary

  1. crossing times
  2. crossing up
  3. crossing wires
  4. crossing-out
  5. crossing-sweeper
  6. crossing-sweepers
  7. crossings
  8. crossings-out
  9. crossinhibition
  10. crossinhibitory
  11. crossinjection

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