📖 broom

noun1 senses

1. a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
2. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
3. any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

See also: Calluna vulgarisScots heatherheatherling

verb2 senses

1. finish with a broom
2. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom“Sweep the crumbs off the table”

See also: sweep

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