broom
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++broom /bruːm, brʊm/ ●●○ noun 1. 
[countable]DHC a large brush with a long handle, used for sweeping floors 扫帚 →5 see picture at 见图 brush12. [uncountable]HBP a large bush with small yellow flowers 金雀花
[countable]DHC a large brush with a long handle, used for sweeping floors 扫帚 →5 see picture at 见图 brush12. [uncountable]HBP a large bush with small yellow flowers 金雀花Examples from the Corpus
broom• There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter.• He would have reached for a broom or a piece of kindling.• Banister installs him in a broom closet upstairs.• Like the rituals of harvest and planting in pastoral societies, the desert broom tufts are a sign.• We compared the sizes of the gardeners' brooms with our own.• I mean, that bit in the broom cupboard - oh, you didn't see it, did you?• It's the same place Boris Becker got his mistress pregnant in the broom cupboard.• I looked back and saw them coming after me with the broom.Origin broom 1. Old English brom “broom plant”; 2. because broom branches were used for making brushesbroom nounChinese
large a handle, brush for Corpus a used long with
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broom
broom /bruːm, brʊm/
noun
1. [countable] a large brush with a long handle, used for sweeping floors
2. [uncountable] a large bush with small yellow flowers
broom /bruːm, brʊm/
noun Language: Old English
Origin: brom 'broom plant';
Origin: brom 'broom plant';
Sense 1
Origin: because broom branches were used for making brushes1. [countable] a large brush with a long handle, used for sweeping floors
2. [uncountable] a large bush with small yellow flowers
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