brooms

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a brush with a long handle and bristles (= short, stiff hairs or pieces of plastic), used for cleaning the floor or the ground:

On his first day at work he was given a broom and told to sweep the floor.

a brush with a long handle made of a wooden stick and long parts for sweeping made of twigs (= small, thin tree branches), which is often connected with witches (= people, especially women, believed to have magical powers) in stories:

The witch cackled and flew away on her broom.

a tool for making the ice smooth in the sport of curling:

The team captain tells teammates to sweep the ice in front of the moving stone with their brooms.

You can rent curling equipment at $6 per hour for a stone and broom.

a bush with small yellow flowers:

The mountains are covered in a scrub of broom and myrtle.

This broom grows up to 15 feet tall and forms impenetrable thickets.

a brush with a long handle, used for cleaning the floor:

I use that broom to sweep the kitchen floor.