(n.) 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.
(n.) 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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
(v. t.) See Bream.
Example Sentences:
(1) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
(2) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(3) As Broome describes: “Walter reinvented building from first principles and reduced it to its simplest terms which led to the post and beam frame.
(4) He’s a Nyikina-Mangala man and a traditional owner of this country, about 225km inland from Broome and 86km south of Derby.
(5) Richard Broom, City's admissions manager, says he is working on the principle that asking for an A* has to be academically justified: "We are not going to ask for it just for the sake of numbers of applicants."
(6) In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.
(7) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(8) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(9) They are broom-, club- or long S-shaped, measuring 4-7 mm (long diameter) by 2-4 mm (short diameter) by 1-2 mm (thickness).
(10) Clearly, we may expect some of our new brooms to withdraw from the process in the coming weeks.
(11) Speaking to Guardian Australia in Broome, she says the impact of shutting services will be seen in the local parks in the town, where a significant population of homeless Aboriginal people already make camp.
(12) Piecing together accounts from friends, it appears this steeled Charlie’s resolve to visit his ex-wife and family in Broome, “by hook or by crook”, as one friend said, even though he was still on the end of a very long waiting list for the town’s Aboriginal dialysis clinic.
(13) Mr Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom Winner: Get a Horse!
(14) "People have described UK Methane as a company of two guys in a broom cupboard," she says.
(15) Mr. Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom Best short Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) Helium Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?
(16) With traditional grass brooms the opposition party’s symbol, a group of young boys, including one who had no legs, swept to the beat of drums and traditional guitars outside.
(17) She had been sleeping rough in Broome for about two years.
(18) With traditional grass brooms - the opposition party’s symbol - a group of young boys, including one who had no legs, swept to the beat of drums and traditional guitars outside.
(19) Barnett made the comments to PerthNow on Thursday morning, the same time as a meeting of the alliance of WA land councils in Broome.
(20) Charlie’s death is now with the Broome coroner, who is waiting for toxicology, pathology and police reports before deciding on an inquiry.
Broomstick
Definition:
(n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.
Example Sentences:
(1) All had been treated by an extremely rigorous conservative regime in which the patients were kept in hospital for an average period of twenty-six months, during which time they were confined to bed with the legs in wide abduction, first in traction and later in "broomstick" plasters to ensure "containment" of the femoral head.
(2) People might not be facing an incident, but they can still have an acoustic experience of it.” Deprived of their visual sense for months and years on end, the Saydnaya detainees developed an acute aural sensitivity, able to identify the different sounds of belts, electrical cables or broomsticks on flesh, and the difference between bodies being punched, kicked or beaten against the wall.
(3) LoveFilm subscribers will be able to watch more than 50 Disney titles, including Dead Poets Society and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, as part of the deal.
(4) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
(5) The splinters were identified as the same type of wood as the broomstick.
(6) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
(7) Two years ago, the city paid $8.75m in damages to a Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was beaten and sodomised with a broken broomstick at a Brooklyn police station after being mistaken for a man who threw a punch at a police officer.
(8) While a full accounting of what the photos show remains elusive, the ACLU believes that among the still-suppressed photos are imagery of a female soldier sexually abusing a detainee with a broomstick; an Iraqi civilian farmer executed by US troops while his hands were tied behind his back; and autopsy photos of an Afghan detainee known as Dilawar, whose death was the subject of Alex Gibney’s acclaimed 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side.
(9) Anyone who's ever done a ropey Yoda voice, or gone to a fancy dress party in a brown dressing gown, or filmed themselves swinging a broomstick around with dangerous abandon; all they've ever wanted was to be in a Star Wars film.
(10) Two hundred ninety-six cases of Perthes' disease with 334 affected hips (38 children had bilateral involvement) were treated by the principle of containment in a "broomstick cast" in abduction and internal rotation, preserved motion in the hip, and continuous traction.
(11) Then, in the bathroom of a precinct house, with his hands cuffed behind his back and his pants down, he was sodomized by a cop with a broken broomstick.
(12) Rooftop pixos require guts and the right equipment – black ink and a paint roller attached to a broomstick – but sometimes that’s not enough, and to extend their reach, pixadores have to dangle their bodies over the roof ledge.
(13) From now until the end of October, Alnwick is hosting regular Battleaxe to Broomstick Tours in which kids learn from costumed guides about the estate's film career and learn about the similarities between the castle's very own knight Harry Hotspur and JK Rowling's boy wizard.
(14) Musk has described the feat as “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
(15) Landing the craft on the barge was akin to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm,” said a statement on the company’s website before the mission .
(16) The company has compared landing the rocket, roughly the height of a 14-storey building, to “trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.
(17) Not only has she had to field 1,000 chat-up lines involving magic and broomsticks, she complains, but she has had to shield her partners from her fame.
(18) A broken wooden broomstick was used in the attack to impale the victim through the rectum.
(19) Slings and springs, broomstick casts, soft tissue releases, and day or night bracing all have a place in obtaining and retaining a good range of abduction.
(20) In the company’s words , stabilizing the rocket for re-entry and an upright landing will be “like trying to balance a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm”.