2. To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.

And now at last you came to swoop it all.

Dryden.

The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the

common grass.

Glanvill.

Swoop, v. i. 1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey,

as a hawk; to stoop.

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