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verb

Say it like: Broo-ms

The correct spelling is brooms. To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

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Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
  2. 2.To sweep with a broom.
  3. 3.(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.

noun

  1. 1.A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
  2. 2.An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
  3. 3.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.
  4. 4.A gun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

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