1. A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
   "She used the broom to sweep the kitchen floor"
    
2. Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus, Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
   "The hillside was covered with bright yellow broom flowers in spring"
    
3. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
   "The Scottish highlands were carpeted in purple broom";
   - heather, ling, Scots heather, Calluna vulgaris

1. Collect or move dirt by moving a brush, hand, etc. in contact with a surface
   "She broomed the debris off the porch";
   - sweep
    
2. Finish with a broom
   "The mason broomed the surface of the concrete for a textured finish"

Sounds like: brume

Derived forms: broomed, brooming, brooms

Type of: bush, cleaning device, cleaning equipment, cleaning implement, finish, heath, shrub, wipe

Part of: Calluna, genus Calluna, Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae

Encyclopedia: Broom, South Yorkshire