broom
A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
Other meanings
An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
A kind of
- cleaning implement
Kinds of broom
- push broom
Word history
From Old English "brōm" (brushwood).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “broom” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.