Meanings
adjectiveinsweeping (not comparable)
- not comparableSweeping inward.
The sluggish Avon, now battling for hours with the encroaching tide, contesting every foot with the insweeping invader, until its fury is spent, and then pressing it back in triumph to the sea, is but a very sorry picture of the rush and roar of the clear waters of our noble river.
1895, Canniff Haight, Here and there in the home land, page 86
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