Found 4 items, similar to broom.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: broom
sapu
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: broom
sapu
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: broom
broom
v 1: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom;
“Sweep the crumbs
off the table”;
“Sweep under the bed” [syn:
sweep]
2: finish with a broom
broom
n 1: a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs
attached to a long handle
2: any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or
Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of
yellow flowers
3: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low
evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn:
heather,
ling,
Scots heather,
Calluna vulgaris]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Broom
Broom
\Broom\, v. t. (Naut.)
See
Bream.
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Broom
\Broom\ (br[=oo]m), n. [OE. brom, brome, AS. br[=o]m; akin
to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. br[=a]mo broom, thorn?bush, G.
brombeere blackberry. Cf.
Bramble, n.]
1. (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, minute leaves,
and large yellow flowers.
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No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom.
--Wordsworth.
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2. 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originally made of the twigs of the broom.
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Butcher's broom, a plant (
Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax
family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks;
-- called also
knee holly. See
Cladophyll.
Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (
Reseda luteola),
used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket.
Spanish broom. See under
Spanish.
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