Meaning

(UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
2. The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
3. Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
4. The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
5. The act of sweeping or flowing.
6. The movement of matter by a current.
7. The matter that has been moved by a current.
8. The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.

Example Sentences

This right is defined by Lord Coke to extend to the enjoyment of the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe), and the like, but not to houses, timber, trees, or mines, .or inany way to the land itself

One consequence of poor gas flow is hopper sweepage. High gas flow near the bottom of the precipitator and improper baffling can cause gas flow into the hopper area.

Another qualitative test which should be performed during the geometric model study is the injection of neutral buoyancy smoke into the roof and hopper regions of the collection chamber, particularly near the outlet, to check that significant amounts of gas are not exiting the precipitator without passing through the collecting plates (' ' sneakage' ' ) and that there are not strong flows in the hopper regions (hopper sweepage) which could cause excessive reentrainment.

Nonuniform gas flow or maldistribution will result in poor collection, excessive reentrainment, or hopper sweepage.

However, observation of the hopper area and the outlet field can usually detect the presence of heavy dust reentrainment either by hopper sweepage or by scouring of the plates.

The drainage, or flow of suds into road ditches or borders, or the drainage of water upon the road itself, as well as any pollution of the same by rubbish, stones, and sweepage from houses or stables, etc., is prohibited.

Domestic sewage is composed primarily of used up or spent water which contains faecal matter, urine, soapy wastes, waste parts of food materials, rejected or cut parts of vegetables, waste or used up papers, dirt of floor and sweepage items and used up or dirty water.

Those who carried it were twelve or thirteen fishermen, with a little number of others of the same cloth, without credit, without arms, without courage, without experience, the offscouring and sweepage of the world, weakness and imbecility itself, who instead of smiting and slaying were whipped and stoned at every turn; instead of attacking, did not so much as make resistance to them that ill handled them, living in extreme humility and innocence.

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• sweepages

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