noun. An implement used for sweeping, usually consisting of a bunch of twigs, straw, or bristles bound together and attached to a stick or handle.

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noun. Any of various Mediterranean shrubs of the genus Cytisus in the pea family, especially C. scoparius, having mostly compound leaves with three leaflets and showy, usually bright yellow flowers.

noun. Any of several similar or related shrubs, especially in the genera Genista and Spartium.

transitive verb. To sweep with a broom.

Same as bream.

To sweep, or clear away, as with a broom.

noun. The popular name of several plants, mostly leguminous shrubs, characterized by long, slender branches and numerous yellow flowers.

noun. A besom, or brush with a long handle, for sweeping floors, etc.: so called from being originally made of the broom-plant.

transitive verb. See bream.

noun. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

noun. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

noun. a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll.

noun. a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket.

noun. See under Spanish.

verb. Alternative form of bream (to clean a ship's bottom)

noun. A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

noun. An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a broom or sweeper.

noun. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Leguminosae, in the genera Cytisus and Genista, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.

verb. To sweep.

verb. finish with a broom

verb. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

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

noun. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

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

"Now you know, missy, of co'se, dese heah broom -- weddin's dey ain't writ down in nuther co't-house nur chu'ch books -- an 'so ef any o' dese heah smarty meddlers was to try to bring up ole sco'es an 'say dat Sister Sophy-Sophia wasn't legally married, dey wouldn't be no witnesses _but me an' de broom_, an 'I'd have to witness _for it_, an' -- an '_I_ wouldn't be no legal witness. ""

butcher's broom  native broom  pneumatic broom  purple broom  sweet broom  

Passover  finish  heath  wipe  

Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  

axe  bramble  brush  brushwood  bucket  

autoclave  besom  brush  brush  carpet sweeper  

bream