Besom definitions

Besom

1) Bishop wasted some on cleaner 2) Broom 3) Broom for Twiggy 4) Broom of twigs 5) Broom of twigs or rushes 6) Broom twig 7) Brush broom 8) Bundle of twigs 9) Cleaning tool 10) Crude broom 11) Curling broom 12) Exclusively Anglo word 13) Exclusively Saxon word 14) Happen a few trimmed a broom 15) Kind of broom
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Besom

1) Broom
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Besom

Besom is a dialectal or historical word for what is now known as a broom, a household implement used for sweeping. The term `besom` is now mostly reserved for a `traditionally constructed` broom, made from a bundle of twigs tied to a stouter pole. The twigs used could be broom (i.e. Genista, whence the modern name `broom` for the tool), heat...
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besom

see
Found on http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/forests/glossary.htm

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besom

curler's broom
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Besom

• (v. t.) To sweep, as with a besom. • (n.) A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.
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besom

difficult woman
Found on http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/general/scots.html

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besom

see
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22223

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Besom

An old word for broom. This special broom is used to symbolically sweep the circle and altar clean before ritual. It sweeps away negative energies.
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Besom

Be'som noun [ Middle English besme , besum , Anglo-Saxon besma ; akin to Dutch bezem , OHG pesamo , German besen ; of uncertain origin.] A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [ Archaic or Fig.] « I will sweep it...
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Besom

Be'som transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Besomed ] To sweep, as with a besom. [ Archaic or Poetic] Cowper. « Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow. »
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besom

[n] - a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle
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besom

implement for sweeping, usually made of a bunch of broom, heather, birch, or other twigs bound together round a handle; a broom [OED].
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besom

noun a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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besom

a broom, esp. one of brush or twigs. · broom (def. 2).
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