Definition of brooms in English

Wiktionary

brooms (Noun)
Plural of broom.

Part of speech

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brooms, verb, present, 3rd person singular of broom (infinitive).
brooms, noun, plural of broom.

WordNet

Noun Plural: brooms
broom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
		shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
		papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
		weeping tree broom small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods
		cytisus albus, cytisus multiflorus, white broom, white spanish broom low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
		common broom, cytisus scoparius, green broom, scotch broom deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
		broom tree, genista anglica, needle furze, petty whin prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
		genista hispanica, spanish gorse, spanish broom erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
		dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen, whin small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
broom - a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
		cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement any of a large class of implements used for cleaning
		besom a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle
		broom handle, broomstick the handle of a broom
		push broom a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper
broom - common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
		heather, ling, Scots heather, Calluna vulgaris
		heath a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
Verb brooms, brooming, broomed
broom - finish with a broom
		finish cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
broom - sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
		sweep
		sweep win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"
		wipe, pass over rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

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Wiktionary

broom (Noun)
A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
broom (Noun)
An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a broom or sweeper.
broom (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.
broom (Verb)
To sweep.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

broom (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.
broom (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.
broom (v. t.)
See Bream.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

broom
A tool used to sweep and clean the floor, made of a bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

broom
brōōm, n. a name given to a number of species of shrubs of the closely allied genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium: a besom made of its twigs.—v.t. to sweep with a broom.—ns. Broom′-corn, a species of plant resembling maize, cultivated for its seed and its spikes, of which brooms are made; Broom′-rape, a parasitic plant found adhering to the root of broom, clover, &c.; Broom′staff, Broom′stick, the staff or handle of a broom.—adj. Broom′y, abounding in or consisting of broom.—To marry over the broomstick, or To jump the besom, to go through an irregular form of marriage, in which both jump over a broomstick. [A.S. bróm; Ger. bram.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

broom
A besom at the mast-head signifies that the ship is to be sold: derived probably from the old practice of displaying boughs at shops and taverns. Also, a sort of spartium, of which ropes are made.

Wikipedia

A broom is a cleaning tool. It consists of stiff fibres attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. In the context of witchcraft, "broomstick" is likely to refer to the broom as a whole. A smaller whisk broom or brush is sometimes called a duster.

History of broom design.

Brooms have changed very much in their construction, since they developed from ad-hoc use of branches and bundles of several natural fibres. Originally, all brooms were round, a shape that is easy to construct but inefficient for actually sweeping. Brooms could be attached to a handle, either short for a whisk broom, or long for a broom used to sweep the floor or fireplace. The word for the tool was originally "besom", "broom" simply being the material of which it was normally made. The fibres used in modern brooms are from broom corn. They are long, straight, durable, and bound together in the plant. The newest major change is the "flat broom", invented by the Shakers in the 1800s, which has far more width for pushing dirt and nearly all brooms produced today are flat brooms.

Brooms and witchcraft.

Brooms have long been connected with witchcraft, almost universally portrayed as medieval-style round brooms and associated with female witches. Despite the association with women, in 1453, the first known case of claiming to have flown on a broomstick is recorded, confessed by the male witch Guillaume Edelin..
disambiguation
A broom is a cleaning tool which also had other uses, e.g. magical and for punishment.
shrub
Brooms are a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs.

All the brooms and their relatives (including "Laburnum" and "Ulex") grow in Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The greatest diversity one can find in the Mediterranean region. Many brooms (though not all) are fire-climax species, adapted to regular stand-replacing fires which kill the above-ground parts of the plants, but create conditions for regrowth from the roots and also for germination of stored seeds in the soil.

The most familiar is common broom, that grows in northwestern Europe. One can find it in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils. Like most brooms, it has apparently leafless stems that in spring and summer are covered with golden-yellow flowers. In late summer, its pea-pod like seed capsules burst open, often with an audible pop, spreading seed from the parent plant. It makes a shrub about 1–3m tall, rarely to 4m. It is also the hardiest broom, tolerating temperatures down to about -25°C.

The brooms belong to the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera "Chamaecytisus", "Cytisus" and "Genista", but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae (syn. Cytiseae). These genera are all closely related and share similar characteristics of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, adaptations to dry growing conditions. Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange