broom Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

OE. brom, brome, AS. brom; akin to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. bramo broom, thornbush, G. brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble, n.

(Bot.) 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, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers.
No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.
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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.