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sweep-head
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the deck or platform occupied by the sweepman on a scow equipped with a tail-sweep.
Quotations
1902
"Bear witness, O my comrades, what a hard-bit gang were we,--/The servants of the sweep-head, but the masters of the sea!"