"asweep" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1842, John Wilson, chapter 3, in The Recreations of Christopher North, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 175",
          "text": "the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth.",
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          "ref": "1890, Banjo Paterson, “The Man from Snowy River”, in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, London: Macmillan, published 1896, page 49",
          "text": "Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep",
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          "ref": "1926, Walter Noble Burns, chapter 20, in The Saga of Billy the Kid, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, page 294",
          "text": "When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts.",
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          "ref": "1962, Austin Clarke, chapter 4, in Twice Round the Black Church, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 36",
          "text": "I thought of Mr. O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like the picture of composers of my music book-covers.",
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          "ref": "1993, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch, New York: Donald J. Fine, Book 1, Chapter 1, p. 11",
          "text": "[…] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain.",
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          "ref": "1842, John Wilson, chapter 3, in The Recreations of Christopher North, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 175",
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