swamp-broom

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• Swamp

  ·vt To plunge or sink into a swamp. II. Swamp ·vt To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to...

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• to swamp

  To plunge into 'inextricable difficulties.--Webster. To whelm or sink as in a swamp.--Todd. The form...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• swamp

  A tract of land or bog on which, from its impermeable bottom, the collected fresh water remains stag...

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• Broom

  ·vt ·see <<Bream>>. II. Broom ·noun An implement for sweeping floors, ·etc., commonly made of the p...

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• broom

  n. name applied to the plant Calycothrix tetragona, Lab., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• broom

  A besom at the mast-head signifies that the ship is to be sold: derived probably from the old practi...

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• swamp-gum

  n. See gum. ...

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• swamp-hawk

  n. another name for the New Zealand Harrier. See harrier. ...

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• swamp-hen

  n. an Australasian bird, Porphyrio melanonotus, Temm. (often incorrectlyshortened to Melanotus). Ca...

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• swamp-mahogany

  n. a timber tree, Eucalyptusbotryoides, Sm. See Gum and Mahogany. 1886. T. Heney, `Fortunate Days,...

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• swamp-oak

  n. 1) A broomlike leguminous shrubor small tree, Viminaria denudata, Sm. (also called Swamp-broom)....

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• swamp-pheasant

  n. called also Pheasant-cuckoo. Another name for the Coucal (q.v.). 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• swamp-sparrow

  n. a nickname in New Zealandfor the Fern-bird (q.v.). 1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' ...

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• logging swamp

  In Maine, the place where pine timber is cut. ...

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• swamp-pink

  (Lat. Azalea Viscosa.) A popular name for the Wild Honeysuckle.--Bigelow's Plants of Boston. ...

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• Broom corn

  ·- A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ...

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• Broom rape

  ·- A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, ha...

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• Butcher's broom

  ·- A genus of plants (Ruscus); ·esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches...

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• Green-broom

  ·noun A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; — called also greenweed. ...

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• broom, native

  n. an Australian timber, Viminaria denudala, Smith, N.O. Leguminosae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...

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• broom, purple

  n. a Tasmanian name for Comesperma retusum, Lab., N.O. Polygaleae. ...

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• native broom

  n. See broom. ...

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• purple broom

  n. See broom. ...

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• rush-broom

  n. Australian name for theindigenous shrub Viminaria denudata, Sm., N.O. Leguminosae. The flowers a...

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• tea-broom

  n. a New Zealand name for the Tea-tree (q.v.). 1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' [Notes] p. 505: «Manuka...

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• broom-corn

  (Sorghum saccharatum.) A species of corn which grows from six to eight feet high, from the tufts of ...

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• corn-broom

  Brooms made from the tops of a species of corn, called broom-corn. ...

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• swamp-daisy-tree

  n. See daisy-tree. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• i swamp it!

  An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see. Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...

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