street-cleaner

See also: street cleaner and streetcleaner

English

Noun

street-cleaner (plural street-cleaners)

  1. Alternative form of streetcleaner.
    • 1831 March 21, Harrisburg Chronicle, volume XIX, number 34, Harrisburg, Pa., →OCLC, page [3], column 3:
      If the Town Council would take a broad hint, street-cleaners might be set to work, and the bustle and change of looks in our streets, could be viewed with advantage.
    • 2023 March 21, Eleanor Ovens, “‘Clean sweep’ is welcomed”, in The Mail, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
      The move comes following renewed calls for a permanent street-cleaner in Dalton, after residents reported a rise in the amount of litter in the town.
    • 2023 June 9, Maple Buescher, “Finding community … on two wheels”, in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E4, column 4:
      It was the street-cleaners, busy at work in the late evening hours, who got to take a break to laugh at the unexpected procession of bicycles.
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