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An implement used for sweeping, typically consisting of a bunch of stiff synthetic fibers or broomcorn stalks, or formerly twigs or straw, bound together and attached to a handle.

The loud, roaring noise of an engine operating at high speed.

Any of various European and North African shrubs of the genus Cytisus in the pea family, especially C. scoparius, having mostly compound leaves with three leaflets and showy, usually bright yellow flowers.

To move noisily at high speed in or as if in a motor vehicle.

Any of several similar or related shrubs, especially in the genera Genista and Spartium.

The sound of an engine revving up.

To sweep with a broom.

The sound of an engine revving up.

(countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

(informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.

Make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving

Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.

A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

To sweep with a broom.

(roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.

(metaphor) to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life

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.

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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; - so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

See Bream.

A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom;

Finish with a broom