- sweep, or
simply a
sweep in the US. A less
common English translation is
swape.
Picotah (or picota) is a
Portuguese loan word. It is also
called a jiégāo...
- from 10 to 20
metres depth, and is thus
considerably more
efficient than a
swape[clarification needed] or shadoof, as it is
known in Arabic,
which can only...
- bar
which carries a
single arm so that the top of the
machine is like a
swape. The arm is
arranged as to height,
length and size,
according to the city...
-
Investigations by California's Soil
Water Air
Protection Enterprise, or
SWAPE, in
connection with Ms. Brockovich,
discovered Dioxin in
homes near the...
- purposes. The
simplest design,
known as the
counterbalanced bucket or '
swape' or 'well-sweep' was in
common use at that time. A more
complicated design...
- the swallow-tail incendiary, but was
lowered using an iron
chain from a
swape lever installed within the
walls of the city. The book also
describes an...
-
defensive walls, or
lowered down the wall by use of iron
chains operated by a
swape lever.
Bombs launched from
trebuchet catapults mounted on
forecastles of...
- of
Santa Maria were used as seamarks. In 1636, a
lever light known as a "
swape"
light was
built nearby at Kolabacken. An iron
basket full of
burning coal...
-
except the skipper; they had no
rudder and were
steered by a
second oar or "
swape" over the stern. The crew
worked with the flow of the
river tides where...
