(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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.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.
Dustpan
Definition:
(n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same adults and children who were going out demonstrating are now out with dustpan and broom.
(2) "Even just putting on some gloves, picking up a dustpan and brush and clearing one broken window on the way into work.