An implement for sweeping, usually made of a bunch of broom, heather, birch, or other twigs bound together round a handle; a broom. (Dialectally…

attributive, with the sense ‘made of or with bast’, as bast broom, bast mat, bast rope, etc.

A utensil consisting of a piece of wood or other suitable material, set with small tufts or bunches of bristles, hair, or the like, for sweeping…

An implement for sweeping, a besom: originally one made of twigs of broom, heather, etc., fixed to a ‘stick’ or handle; now the generic name for any…

A broom or mop: in oven-swepe. Obsolete.

A cloth for removing dust from a surface; a dust-brush. Cf. feather-duster n. at feather, n. compounds 2a.

General attributive: as bristle brush; bristle-armed, bristle-backed, bristle-bearing, bristle-leaved, bristle-like, bristle-pointed adj., bristle-s…

(see quots.; perhaps belongs to flag, n.1).

a brush with the bristles set in a flat stock or head.

A bundle or tuft of twigs, hair, feathers, etc. fixed on a handle, used for brushing or dusting; also, a water-sprinkler.

A flat broom made of birch twigs.

a broom made of the panicles of broom-corn or of the tops and dried seed-stalks of the maize-plant.

A long-handled broom with a round brush, for sweeping ceilings, etc. Cf. Turk's head, n. 3. Now rare.

Something that whisks or is used for whisking: applied to various objects, as a fan; a rod or switch; a bunch of feathers used as a brush (cf. whisk…

Short for swish-broom n., swish-tail n. at swish-, comb._form affix.

(see quot.)

= sense 4.

A round long-handled broom or brush; also called pope's head.

In various transferred and allusive senses. A small broom; a whisk.

a wire brush for cleaning out boiler-tubes or flues; also, a slender brush for cleaning the flexible tube of a feeding-bottle.

A fibre obtained from the leaf-bases or leaf-stalks of certain palms, used in the manufacture of brushes, ropes, etc.; also the palm from which this…

a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.

attributive and in other combinations. Used for dusting, as dusting-brush, dusting-cloth, etc.

a hard brush made from the roots of the scrub palmetto, Sabal etonia.

a brush designed for brushing suede.

A small broom or brush without a stick for a handle.