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tail-sweep
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long oar for steering a scow, much used on the rivers of the Northwest at the turn of the century.
See: sweepman
Quotations
1909
. . . the runaway [barge] with tail-sweep set has turned the next corner of the Athabasca.