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Broomstaff
Definition:
(n.) A broomstick.
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Broomstick
Definition:
(n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.
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(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”.