Broom

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt ·see Bream.

II. Broom ·noun 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— so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

III. Broom ·noun 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.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

← Brookweed   ×   Broom corn →

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