"brooms" in the noun sense
1. broom
a cleaning implement for sweeping bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
2. broom
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
3. heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris
common Old World heath represented by many varieties low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
"brooms" in the verb sense
1. sweep, broom
sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
"Sweep the crumbs off the table"
"Sweep under the bed"
2. broom
finish with a broom
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