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There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
2022 January 12, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Scotland”, in RAIL, number 948, page 19:
Bridge of Weir: Protection of the site of the former Kilmacolm branch station (closed on January 3 1983) has been lifted, and developers have swooped in with plans for new housing.
(transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
Quoted in 1971, The Scriblerian (volumes 4-5, page 2)
And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds?
(transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
1661, Joseph Glanvill, “An Apology for Philosophy”, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions., London: E. C for Henry Eversden, →OCLC, page 247:
Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs:
to seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep — see sweep
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Dutch: (verb) met een forse beweging de hoogte ingaan,
One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:
The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.