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Broom

noun

A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers.

Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere. Synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather.

verb

Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom. Synonym: sweep. "Sweep under the bed"

Finish with a broom.

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"Broom" Quotes from Famous Books

... though a woman might have pointed out wet corners and certain muddy splashes on the wall. He lost all count of the buckets of water that he carried from the spring, and it occurred to him that Mary Hope would need a new broom, for the one Belle had provided was worn down to a one-sided wisp that reminded him of the beard of a billy goat. He used two cans of condensed lye and all of the washing powder, and sneezed himself too weak too ...

— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower

... sensibility, mettle and beauty, presented themselves by turns; and the cold, woodeny room, the neglected tavern, the autumn night wind coming down the chimney and starting the fire, all seemed instinctive, like him, with mischief, as if Patty Cannon's soul flew astraddle of a broom and ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... we won't have to practice fighting no more with broom sticks and cans and etc. because Sargent James told us tonight that the rifles was comeing so I said to my boys that I hoped they was good shots so we could make a sucker out of the other squads and I told them if they was all ...

— Treat 'em Rough - Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer • Ring W. Lardner

... whose little game Wallingford were going to checkmate!" declared one man. "I've allus said 'at he were running a rare old risk. We know what t' old saying is about new brooms sweeping clean—all very well, is that, but ye can smash a new broom if ye use it over vigorously. Wallingford were going a bit too deeply into t' abuses o' this town—an' he's paid t' penalty. Put out o' t' way—that's ...

— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

... this. It takes off one of my great crimes. You know I have deprived the court of the privilege of living in the palace, and I have given them wherewith to find lodgings in the city. Here go the ladies with their bundles under their arms, and the lord high-steward has a broom sweeping after them as they go. This charming individual in the corner with a hunting-whip, is myself. And here is the pith of the joke. 'Rooms to let here. Inquire of the proprietor on the first floor.' [Footnote: Hubner, i., p. 190.] What ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

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