broom

Meanings

Noun

• A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
• An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
• Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium (genus), with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
• A gun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

Verb

• To sweep with a broom.
• 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.
• to get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life
• Alternative of bream

Origin

• From Middle English broom, from Old English brōm ("brushwood"), from Proto-West Germanic *brām ("bramble") (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.